How do you make coffee in camp?

[Nitetimes]

Coke bottle out of the cooler.......I don't do coffee. Yuuckk!!!!

[Senior Ninja]

French Press.

Steve

[Wolfgang92025]

Starting drinking black tea when I was a teen in Germany.
About the only time I drink coffee is for breakfast in a restaurant.

Guess that makes me a teatotaller

Until dinner, and then it's time for a nice cold beer.

Wolfgang

[Ageless]

I have both a 12V brewer and a stovetop perk

[bobhenry]

With Electric ~~~


and cinnamon rolls in the toaster oven !!!!


on the fire or camp cook top ~~~

[iOpine]

We're Aeropress folks, too. Have the traditional blue percolator and Coleman stove, heat water, and then... Connie Aeropresses 2 double-shots straight into a 4-cup carafe -- MAGNIFICO!!
Leftover water helps with the dishes later.

[Toytaco2]

As one who worked 30 years in the ground roasted coffee business, I can be a stickler for good coffee most of the time. But somehow, things change in camp - especially on a really cold morning in the deer hunting camp. At those times all I need is my old stove top percolator and the Coleman Stove. No matter how long it cooks, it always seems to taste great and hit the spot - no sugar, no creamer - just strong and black!

[jopasm]

May try a percolator eventually (my grandmother used one) but so far my preferred method is a non-electric drip. It's a plastic cone with a flange on the bottom. Put it on top of a vacuum carafe, drop a filter in the cone, fill with grounds, and slowly pour just-off-the-boil water over the grounds. You can control the water temp and pour speed precisely so it makes a great cup (and it's a cheap setup). I can make a travel mug or a whole carafe, the vacuum carafe will keep it piping hot for a couple of hours and drinkably hot all day.

[caseydog]

I have found the best way to enjoy a hot cup of coffee while camping is to walk around the campground with my cup until someone offers me some coffee. Generally takes just a few minutes.

CD

[legojenn]

I'm a coffee press person. I have this nifty GSI lexan press that I think is no longer produced by them. I've tried every method I could think of to prepare coffee and have always come back to the press. The down side to my press is that the plunger gets stuck no matter how coarse I grind the beans. I'm sure that the plunger getting stuck assumedly is one of the reasons that it is discontinued. Before that I used to bring instand coffee with me. No muss. no fuss, but a weird aftertaste.

Now that I work in a building with a Starbucks inside, I drop in once every couple of days. Actually, I don't think that there is a building left in Ottawa without either a Starbucks or Tim Horton's. Anyhow, Starbucks is advertising, er no hyping the crap out of VIA instant coffee. They claim that it tastes just like their brewed coffee, though I find that their brewed tastes kind of burnt. I'm wondering if at $1.15/packet whether it's worth it to not have the nuisance of coffee preparation. I am not sure that I am ready to part with my coffee press just yet. I find that $1.15 per serving is too expensive, and I am not confident that there is an instant coffee out there that doesn't taste all chemically.

[Arne]

Microwave oven and instant coffee... once I add the french vanilla coffee creamer in quantity, the quality of the coffee is destroyed, anyway.

[Geron]

Aeropress user's: Have you tried the "inverted" brewing method with the Aeropress.

Solves the major complaint of "It takes twice as much coffee grinds" in the aeropress.

It's covered in the 40 pages and nearly 2000 post on the Coffeegeek forum. But if you're a new user you may not have read all the posts. If anyones interested I'll take some pics and post the method.

[Corwin C]

I'm not a coffee drinker, but I love the aroma in the morning...

Does this mean I mooch from the neighbors?

[Greg M]

. If anyones interested I'll take some pics and post the method.

I'd be interested. I assume you start off like normal, but flip it over for a little bit before ramming the plunger all the way down?

-Greg

[Geron]

. If anyones interested I'll take some pics and post the method.

I'd be interested. I assume you start off like normal, but flip it over for a little bit before ramming the plunger all the way down?

-Greg

Hi Greg,
I learned this from the Coffeegeek forum. I did not think of it myself.

Start off with the Aeropress inverted with the plunger pull out to about the 4 or as far as possible to maintain stability


Put in the ground coffee or grind into the Aeropress


Add the hot water (your preferred temp ) and stir: Caution, if you have freshed roasted coffee it will bloom right out of the aeropress


This is now very similar to a press pot. Let the grinds extract your preferred length of time. I usually go about 2-3 minutes.


Replace the cap with the filter, invert onto the cup and press


Enjoy and ready for the next cup. About 15 second cleanup!! Much, Much easier than a french press but with much the same results plus a clean, filtered cup!!!


Using this method you do NOT have to use double the amount of coffee as per the factory/inventor's instructions. I use 1 scoop (11 g) for a 6 oz of water.
The Geeks are now recommending that you cut your own filters from Melitta's micropore filters. The geeks say than can tell a difference . Me, I can't.