Coffee lovers: in the summer heat, iced or hot?

While exercising in the park the other day, a gentleman of perhaps my age happened by sipping a cup of hot coffee from a nearby Italian coffee shop. We struck up a conversation in which he, seeing me dripping in sweat, half apologized for having hot coffee on such a steamy day, I told him I love coffee too, and often drink it hot even in the summer. It sometimes seems like the heat on the inside makes the outside heat just a touch more tolerable. He said his father had always told him that same thing.

In truth, aside from still drinking it hot, I love iced coffee and particularly iced cappuccino in the summer heat too. But for the sake of maintaining that moment of camaraderie, I didn’t volunteer that information, and just wished him a good day as I hit the trail for my next round of pumping iron while walking.

How about you? In the summer heat, is it always iced, either way, always hot or is coffee for winter and summer for ice tea in your book?