Coffee while backpacking - 2008/09/10 17:31What do you guy's do for coffee on the trail? Last few trips I used those single serving bags (they look like tea bags). Not very good and they generate waste that has to be packed out.
I guess the other choices are instant (no waste to pack, but even lower quality) or water over grounds & filter.
Coffee while backpacking - 2008/09/11 15:39i actually have come to enjoy instant coffee. it's by far the simpliest of all coffee ideas on the trail. i even mix my sugar right in w/ my grinds. as you said, nothing to pack out, nothing to filter, no grinds to dump, etc...
Coffee while backpacking - 2008/09/25 05:13i have 2 80ml aluminum bottles ones instant coffee and sugar mix the other in whitener. ive actually started drinking instant coffee even when im not hiking or climbing
Coffee while backpacking - 2008/09/26 00:54lol dawson i did the same thing. didn't ever drink instant until i started drinking it on the trail. now i find myself having a cup of it after supper or in the morning if i'm running late and don't have time to brew heheh
Coffee while backpacking - 2008/09/26 04:19Instant is by far the easiest way to enjoy coffee on the trail. Coffee bags would be my second choice, Maxwell House bags are the best tasting I have found. Coffee was meant to be black, strong and hot. Sugar and creamer just pollute it. If a group of us are hiking, we always take the perk pot and grinds. This way we can enjoy real coffee and distribute the weight around. rickd1 (familycampingguy)
Coffee while backpacking - 2008/09/26 08:34BTW, I hate the creamers (however, they will make an excellent fire starter--- I saw a Mythbuster episode where they poured creamer on something and WOOOOSH! So beware.) However, today I had some Whole Foods, aka my whole paycheck, creamer. That stuff was really very good. I didn't check ingredients, so for all I know actually had milk in it. I didn't see the price, but I imagine it would go far. I also have seen rave reviews for Nido (sp?) which is a dry whole milk. It is popular in hispanic communities, though I have yet to see this around her in NM.
Coffee while backpacking - 2008/09/26 15:15Thanks, I'm going with instant. Black & bitter, like my heart. Wish we had Whole Foods around here, I was in one once while on a Utah ski trip and was impressed.
Re:Coffee while backpacking - 2008/11/13 00:15I use my buddies Jet Boil which has a coffee press, similar to a French press. I use regular coffee in a bag. I dont mind coffee black so I just drink it black, but if I can find those creamer packets and sugar packets I'll take them along. ---------
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Re:Coffee while backpacking - 2008/12/17 05:17I have a screw on (metal mesh) strainer cup that goes right on my Nalgene bottle. It gives me 2 options. Coffee grounds in the bottle and strain while drinking (cowboy coffee. strong and nasty. perfect). Or, put grounds in the strainer cup, invert bottle to "steap" then remove filter and grounds. Works very well.
Re:Coffee while backpacking - 2008/12/17 05:17I have a screw on (metal mesh) strainer cup that goes right on my Nalgene bottle. It gives me 2 options. Coffee grounds in the bottle and strain while drinking (cowboy coffee. strong and nasty. perfect). Or, put grounds in the strainer cup, invert bottle to "steap" then remove filter and grounds. Works very well.
Re:Coffee while backpacking - 2008/12/17 06:26FDB, where did you get the strainer for the nalgene bottle. Ive been looking for one, and I havent found one yet.... although I did find the firefly thingy which is awesome. Its a nalgene bottle cap that has a LED in the top. When turned on, it causes a full nalgene to glow brightly like a giant lantern.
Re:Coffee while backpacking - 2008/12/18 20:34The firefly is so cool! Great way to combine a water bottle with a lantern XP ---------
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Re:Coffee while backpacking - 2008/12/30 04:57i was interested at a point for the firefly as well, but after further investigation i didn't think i'd be able to read by it and decided against it...
Re:Coffee while backpacking - 2008/12/30 16:59I looked at one of those too for a reading light. I found a candle lantern was not bright enough and too difficult to posistion right, and I did not want to carry a LED lantern. Finially settled on the red LED on my headlamp for a reading light. I was also thinking about one of those little book lights you attach to the book before finding the red LED worked just fine.
Re:Coffee while backpacking - 2009/01/15 20:41I use an Ibrik which looks like Gen. MacArthur's pipe. 'turkish coffee' on youtube.
Starbucks will know how to grind Turkish if you ask.
Superfine grounds are the only size that a cheap electric blade grinder does uniformly, like my old $10 Krups 203 grinds Turkish very well in ten seconds, but not worth a *&^@ on larger grinds.
Quoting SweetMarias coffee site for Ibriks:
"The coffee should be powderized ... that is, the finest grind possible. (In fact, this is ONE thing that those whirling-blade type grinders do fairly well)".
So tiny that in the Mideast they eat grounds and all, which looks funny around the campfire, but is very close to expresso!
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