Nitro cold brew
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Made in Toronto · Serviced in Toronto
What would you put on tap?
A compact beverage machine built locally in Toronto. Cold brew, iced tea, lemonade, cocktails — batched ahead, chilled, poured in seconds. Pick your kind of business below and the rest of this page changes to match.
15-minute demo at our Toronto factory
Factory-direct pricing for the GTA. Built and serviced in Toronto, sold to you with nobody in between.
Toronto · Peel · York · Halton · Durham
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What you'd put on tap
Still cold brew
Same tank, no nitrogen, faster than pouring from a jug.
Iced tea
House-brewed, costs pennies, sells for the price of a coffee.
Matcha
Batched properly once, instead of whisked badly twelve times.
Lemonade
The drink you sell to everyone who does not want coffee.
Seasonal specials
Swap what is in the tank; the tap stays the same.
Not on the list? That is the demo. Bring a batch of whatever you already sell and we will run it through the machine before you commit to anything.
A menu you can change
More menu, same counter
A second cold drink category without a second machine, a second fridge, or a second person making it. Your seasonal special is a new batch, not new equipment.
Unlimited chilling
Batch ahead, pour in seconds
The prep happens before the rush; during it, someone pulls a handle — the same drink every time, whoever is on shift. It chills on the way to the glass and keeps chilling.
Nitro or still
Built and fixed in Toronto
Either nitro or still. No cylinders, no kegs, no regulator. And if it breaks, it comes back to the bench it was built on.
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Built in Toronto by the people who answer when you write.
Most beverage equipment gets to you through an importer, a distributor and a dealer. Ours gets to you in a van.
We build it here
Every DRNX is assembled by hand in our Toronto factory. Not imported, not badge-engineered. You can stand where yours was built.
We service it here
When something goes wrong it comes back to us — send it across town in an Uber, or drop it off yourself. No cross-border RMA, no waiting on a distributor.
You talk to us
Whoever answers knows the machine, because they helped build it. There is no tier one, and no ticket number.
- 6,720
- machines built to date
- 0
- dealers between us and you
- 1
- building: built, sold and serviced
- 8 yrs
- designing and building here
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Where the factory-direct price applies.
Toronto, Peel, York, Halton and Durham — our backyard. This is not a promotion with a boundary drawn around it. Anyone can put a machine in a courier; from in here you can drive it over, and that is the difference between a repair and a shipment.
Toronto
Toronto, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, East York, York (borough)
Peel
Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon
York
Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill, Newmarket, Aurora, King, Whitchurch-Stouffville, East Gwillimbury, Georgina
Halton
Oakville, Burlington, Milton, Halton Hills
Durham
Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa, Clarington, Uxbridge, Scugog, Brock
Just outside? Tell us where you are anyway — it is a different conversation, not a closed door. Pick “Somewhere else” on the form and tell us where you are.
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“But where do I get the drink?”
This is the question that stops most people buying. There are three answers and the first one is a trip to the grocery store.
- EasiestSame day
Buy it ready to drink
Pick up ready-to-drink cold brew from any grocery store — STŌK works well. Pour it in and start serving. You need to know nothing about coffee.
- BetterAbout a week
Use a local supplier
We introduce you to GTA roasters and beverage makers who will supply concentrate at wholesale. Better drink, better margin, no equipment on your side.
- BestWhenever you are ready
Make your own
We give you ratios, filtration guidance, and the machine settings to match. Your recipe, your margin, your name on it.
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The GTA factory-direct program
Everything below is included.
Factory-direct GTA pricing
No dealer, no distributor, no freight from overseas.
Repairs at the bench it was built on
It goes back to the people who assembled it. No RMA number, no freight, no border.
Priority for GTA machines
Local machines go to the front of the bench queue.
Cleaning, step by step
Every routine on video and in writing, so it does not depend on who is on shift.
A 3D animation for what goes wrong
Watch what is happening inside the machine before you open anything.
X-ray views and direct part ordering
A 3D render of your machine with the shell turned transparent, every part labelled. Order the one you need instead of describing it down a phone.
Recipe and menu help
What to put on tap, how strong, and what to charge for it.
Local supplier introductions
GTA roasters and beverage suppliers.
The library is public. Read the service manual, watch a machine come apart and find the part you would need, before you talk to us — service.drinkbrood.com.
GTA price
We send it to the businesses we are talking to.
It is a real number, not a starting point, and it is the same for everyone inside the five regions.
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The awkward questions
What happens if it breaks?
Start with service.drinkbrood.com. There is a video and a 3D animation for most faults, and plenty of them turn out to be one part you can swap yourself. If that does not do it, email or a video call — most things are fixable where the machine stands. If it needs the bench, send it across town in an Uber, or drop it off yourself. It goes back to the people who assembled it, which is most of the reason to buy one from thirty minutes away.
How long does cleaning actually take?
About twenty minutes, every day. Every routine is on video at service.drinkbrood.com, so it does not rely on the one person who was shown how.
What if nobody on my team is technical?
Then use the library at service.drinkbrood.com — it is public, so you can go and read it before you buy anything. Every clean and every common fault has a video, a written version and a 3D animation of what is happening inside the machine, and every part is numbered on an x-ray render of the machine with the shell turned transparent, so you can order the right one without knowing what it is called. Most problems never reach us. The ones that do are a drive away.
Do I need nitrogen tanks?
No. DRNX pulls nitrogen from the air in the room. No cylinders, no regulator, no gas supplier account, no swapping tanks mid-shift.
Do I need to know anything about cold brew?
No. See QuickStart above — the easiest path is buying ready-to-drink cold brew at the grocery store and pouring it in. You can get more sophisticated later, or never.
I am outside the GTA. Can I still buy one?
Of course! The program is tied to Toronto, Peel, York, Halton and Durham because that is our backyard. Otherwise you can order one directly from us at drinkbrood.com.
Will it handle my drink if it has pulp, pearls or solids in it?
DRNX dispenses liquid, so anything suspended in the drink needs thinking about. If yours has real solids in it, bring us a batch before you commit to anything — we will find out together in fifteen minutes.
Can I try it before I buy it?
Yes, and we would rather you did. Bring a batch of something you already sell to the factory and we will run it through the machine while you watch. Fifteen minutes.
What is the warranty?
One year from delivery. Clean it daily and keep it indoors. To claim, register warranty at drinkbrood.com/warranty-registration with the serial number.
What does it need to run?
A standard outlet and a bit of counter — on its own it needs no water line and no drain. It runs at 120V, single phase, 2.8 amps, which is less draw than a kettle. It is 9.25 inches wide, 14.74 high and 18.25 deep, and weighs 75 pounds. The drink goes in ready to drink, from a 1.5 or 3.5 gallon reservoir or a bag-in-box, and comes out of a push button or a tap handle.
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Bring us your drink.
Bring a jug of your own cold brew. We will run it through the machine and you can taste the difference in the room.
What the fifteen minutes is
Bring a batch
Something you already sell — your cold brew, your lemonade, the cocktail you batch on Fridays. It does not have to be finished or perfect.
We pour it through the machine
On the bench where it was built, while you watch. You see the whole thing, including the parts that are fiddly.
You taste it
And you tell us whether it holds up. If it does not, that is a useful answer and it cost you fifteen minutes.
You go away and think
There is no sequence of follow-up emails, because there is no list to put you on. We reply about the demo and that is all.