You don’t have to go to a coffee shop to get a great cup of cold-brew coffee. We’ve found that the OXO Good Grips Cold Brew Coffee Maker is the best vessel for making smooth, delicious iced coffee at home.
This model makes cold coffee with balanced acidity, and it has a stronger aroma and a cleaner finish than brews from the 16 other coffee makers we’ve tested. On top of that, the OXO Good Grips brewer is the easiest to use and clean.
Our pick
OXO Good Grips Cold Brew Coffee Maker
This cold-brew coffee maker produced the strongest, boldest brew of any model we tested. It’s also easier to assemble and use than the competition.
Compared with other cold-brew coffee makers, the OXO Good Grips Cold Brew Coffee Maker produced a more consistent, flavorful cup of coffee, likely thanks to its metal mesh filter. It’s easier to set up and clean than other brewers we tested, and it drains neatly with the flip of a switch.
It also looks sleek and comes with an attractive (if delicate) glass carafe. And since this is an appliance that lives on your counter, looks matter.
Like all of our picks, this brewer produces a coffee concentrate that needs to be diluted with water or milk. We found that about 2 ounces of concentrate from any of our picks was enough for a full glass of cold brew. So a full, 24- to 28-ounce batch of concentrate from this model yields about 12 to 14 servings of coffee.
If you can’t get our top pick, the Filtron Cold Water Coffee Concentrate Brewer is a solid option. It’s larger (yielding about 32 ounces of concentrate) and nearly as easy to use. And it produces coffee that’s tasty but not as strong as the OXO’s brew.
It also comes with a tall plastic carafe that’s more durable than OXO’s glass ones, though it’s potentially trickier to fit in the fridge.
However, the Filtron’s felt filter can get moldy if you store it improperly. The black plastic brewer is not much to look at, and draining it on top of the carafe is a bit precarious. The drainage hole also seals with a simple rubber stopper, which is messy to remove and a little more leak-prone than the seal on the OXO brewers.
The OXO Compact Cold Brew Coffee Maker is a smaller version of our OXO top pick, yielding about 16 ounces of concentrate, and it’s just as easy to use. Its coffee tastes stronger and less balanced, but you can always dilute the brew to your liking.
This coffee maker takes up less counter space than our other picks. And it packs into a neat, self-contained package for storage, so it’s a better option for smaller kitchens.
