Breakfast of champions ...

Today Shell's and I had most of our meals out ... all of them in fact.  It started with a smoothie for breakfast, snacks & cocktails at Amuse and then dinner was Chinese takeout.  Before all of that began though I started my day with my pre-workout wake up juice ... cold brew coffee!

Shells & I first had cold brew coffee in Charleston, SC last year, and we've been obsessed with it ever since.  Cold brew coffee is about 3x more caffeinated than standard coffee.  While you can possibly buy it pre-mixed in your home location, here in Richmond we have only been able to find concentrate so far ... the benefit to that is that you can mix it any way you'd like.  The picture below is the brand we can purchase at Whole Foods in Richmond.

The way I like to make it is to start with a healthy shot of the concentrate (about 3 oz) and then I add 3 oz of milk, 3 oz of water and a good splash of Hershey's chocolate syrup ... stir and top off with a bit of ice and you've got a good cup of wake up juice.  (If you're in a pinch you can mix the 3 oz of concentrate with an 8oz bottle of Nesquik for a not quite as good, but adequate substitute)

Whether you find this brand or another, I just hope you find and try some cold brew coffee ... it'll quite literally wake you up.