Our Story

Obsessed with
clarity

We started Aqua Frost with one conviction: the ice in a great drink should be as considered as the spirit it chills.

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Aqua Frost ice splashing into a glass

In 2019, a handful of bartenders and a refrigeration engineer grew tired of cloudy, fast-melting ice watering down beautiful cocktails. So we built a better block from the water up.

Today, Aqua Frost freezes water directionally over three days — the same way glaciers form — pushing out every trapped bubble and impurity. What's left is pure, optical-grade crystal, hand-cut to spec and delivered cold to the venues that care most.

72h
of patient directional freezing behind every single block we cut.
What We Believe

Three things we never compromise

01

Purity

Triple-filtered, mineral-balanced water and a slow freeze. No haze, no off-notes, nothing between the ice and the drink.

02

Craft

Every block is cut to exact dimensions. Each format is designed around the glass it's destined for.

03

Cold-chain

Temperature-controlled from facility to venue, so the ice that leaves us arrives exactly as clear and true as it was cut.

Why Aqua Frost

Engineered for consistency, not just cold

Consistent shape, every batch

Advanced ice-forming control means every cube and bullet holds the same precise shape, batch after batch.

Controlled water content

Ice and water ratio is tuned to each format, for a cleaner, slower melt in the glass.

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Food-grade stainless steel

Every surface that touches your ice is food-grade stainless steel, built to last.

Hygienic production

Automated sprayers limit mineral buildup, keeping production clean without constant manual cleaning.

How It's Made

From water to cube

Forming Freezing Harvest Collection
01

Fill

Water is pumped over a refrigerated metal grid or into cube molds, where it begins to freeze.

02

Freeze

A refrigeration system circulates cold refrigerant through the grid, steadily extracting heat as the water freezes solid.

03

Harvest

Once the cubes reach the right size, a hot gas valve briefly warms the molds, releasing the finished cubes.

04

Collect

The finished cubes drop into a collection bin, ready to be bagged and delivered cold.

Our Equipment

Built on serious engineering

Every Aqua Frost cube and bullet is cut on Blue Star ICM ice machines — engineered by India's leading air-conditioning and refrigeration company for perfectly shaped, food-grade ice at scale. It's the same rigor we bring to every batch we deliver.

Champagne chilled on Aqua Frost ice
80kg
Produced every 24 hours, per unit
10–25g
Precise mass, every single piece
R290
Eco-friendly refrigerant
Food-grade
Stainless steel, every surface
The Journey

From one freezer to 150+ venues

2019

The first block

Founded in a single cold room with one mission: ice clear enough to read through.

2021

First 50 venues

Word spread through the hospitality community. Fifty of the city's best became weekly partners.

2023

The directional-freeze facility

A purpose-built facility scaled our craft without ever cutting a corner on clarity.

2026

150+ venues, one standard

Now pouring across 150+ locations nationwide — same obsession, more glasses.

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