Day 6 - Iced Coffee Starbucks Style

My family is self proclaimed Starbucks addicts!! It's really bad, even the kids have jumped on the caffeine rich, scone frosting, chocolate milk boxed, cake popped train.  We love the coffee of course and decided after a hefty realization of how much was being spent monthly to enjoy the special brew that we would buy the beans and make it ourselves.  This in itself has saved us a TON - seriously hundreds of dollars a month (told you it was an addiction).  But after brewing and pouring over ice (we love it iced) we noticed it got really watered down and wasn't quite Starbucks equivalent, but we kept doing it cause we were saving.  Then we noticed that at Starbucks they don't ice it straight from the coffee machine, they keep it refrigerated in a pitcher!!! Of course!!! So we started pouring (a cooled) pot of coffee into a pitcher and keeping it in the fridge to use, and its fabulous!! And honestly a pot will last my hubs and I 2 days, so that eliminates brewing a new pot every morning! Double Yeah!!

Who says you can't have coffeehouse quality at home..shame on you. (and yes that is a beer pitcher!)