Some people drink half-caf, vanilla-flavoured, soy-milk ventis; others prefer their coffee the way nature intended: beans and water.

Bodum has sold millions of French press coffee makers, but it was one of their coffee-aficionado-type customers that discovered the best way to use it for making ice coffee: put the ground coffee in the jug as usual; add cold water and put the jug in the fridge overnight; in the morning, press down the plunger and – voilà!

Bodum liked the method so much the company designed a press made especially for ice coffee, with two lids – one for the fridge overnight and one with the plunger.

The BEAN comes in black, white and assorted bright colours and has a capacity of 1.5L (or 12 European-size cups). Buy it in Canada through culturedcoffeebean.com.