Coffee - iced or not?

The answer is always yes it can be iced and done well. For people like me who spend most of the year in a perpetual state of hot, iced coffee is a welcome treat. However I have found in my search that iced coffee is not a normal thing in Portland. I have been told everything from no we don't do iced coffee, to this weird thing of pouring hot coffee over ice. (See that just makes it tepid not iced.) but in my journey to find my perfect cup of joe, the perfect coffeehouse for me, I am finding new types of drinks that I am really liking. I might actually be finding the perfect substitute for iced coffee, the iced americano.