As far as I can recall, I've always considered "cold" to apply to the brewing, not the drinking. I learned the technique as "brew extra strong, then add hot water to taste", and that's how I've been doing it since I bought my first cold-brew maker.
Where I live we don't get a lot of hot weather, so drinking cold brew cold is strictly a high summer activity for me.
me, too. the Toddy brewer 30 years ago, even spoke of this. It was a way to premake your coffee concentrate, and then mix with water and microwave to heat up....
Where I live we don't get a lot of hot weather, so drinking cold brew cold is strictly a high summer activity for me.