Camp Coffee the old way

I hear you on the fresh ground coffee addict thing. I have a GSI hand crank grinder, and a french-press mug that gets used almost every day. I also tend to carry some kind of other caffenne with me (mints, gum) I don't usually get headaches, I just stop moving.
 
MISANTHROPIST - "... Otherwise I just pour it slowly and drink it through my teeth."

Straining it through your teeth... that's the way we used to drink moonshine down in northern Arkansas where I grew up. Strain it through your teeth, spit out the rats' tails and pigs' bristles and it was mighty good!! Had more character that way. :thumbup:

L.W.
 
Bufford said:
I have done this many many times. Bring a pot of water to a boil, toss in the coffee and let it simmer awhile. Then set aside for the grounds to settle, then carefully pour into mug to leave grinds behind, and then enjoy.
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When I was a boy camping in the Lake Temagami region of Ontario we would bring water to a boil in a large pot, throw in a handful of coarsely ground coffee, and set the pot to the side of the fire so that the grounds could settle. Gently dipping the lip of a Sierra cup or pannican into top layer of the brewed coffee meant that you wouldn't get any grounds. Sugar was optional - I remember drinking it black in those days, along with a couple of rashers of thick bacon and whatever cereal (Red River, Cream of Wheat, Oatmeal) was available. No breakfast was complete without a thick piece of bannock spread heavily with jam and peanut butter. Given that we were probably burning off a couple thousand calories by lunch this was a great way to start the day. Coffee came first, then the bacon, and finally the cereal and bannock. It was always cold and dark with a thick mist over the water and the combination of hot coffee and a warm fire was wonderful.

Best,

Steve
 
slamade said:
When I was a boy camping in the Lake Temagami region of Ontario we would bring water to a boil in a large pot, throw in a handful of coarsely ground coffee, and set the pot to the side of the fire so that the grounds could settle. Gently dipping the lip of a Sierra cup or pannican into top layer of the brewed coffee meant that you wouldn't get any grounds. Sugar was optional - I remember drinking it black in those days, along with a couple of rashers of thick bacon and whatever cereal (Red River, Cream of Wheat, Oatmeal) was available. No breakfast was complete without a thick piece of bannock spread heavily with jam and peanut butter. Given that we were probably burning off a couple thousand calories by lunch this was a great way to start the day. Coffee came first, then the bacon, and finally the cereal and bannock. It was always cold and dark with a thick mist over the water and the combination of hot coffee and a warm fire was wonderful.

Best,

Steve
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Temagami!
Florence, Wolf, Lady Evelyn, bannock, bacon & cowboy coffee! And you could cut and use all the wood you needed ( looking for those standing dead trees, "Cheekos").
Now those were the days!!
 
My first experience with cowboy coffee was rather painful. It was 1965 and we went to a dude ranch somewhere in south Texas on our senior trip. Before we left for the 6 or 7 hour drive, several of us bought pipes and cheap cherry blend tobacco which we smoked all the way there, surprisingly the chaperones allowed us to smoke. After a couple of days of intensive pipe smoking my tongue and mouth were cooked. If you have ever smoked a pipe, especially with cheap tobacco, you understand. Near the end of our trip we got up early one morning and rode horses out into the woods and had a cowboy breakfast complete with cowboy coffee. I watched them take the pot off the campfire and pour it into my cup which I put aside to cool some. I didn't realize they had given me an insulated cup and when I took a drink it was still near boiling. When that hot coffee hit my already sore tongue it brought me to tears and I don't think I was able to eat the rest of the day.

Since then I have often made cowboy coffee when camping just by putting grounds in some water and bringing it to a boil. Once the water begins to boil you set the pot aside and let the grounds settle then enjoy some of the best coffee ever. Recently I have started buying coffee singles, like tea bags but little bags of coffee in foil pouches. Just boil some water, pour it in your cup, add one or two coffee bags, let it steep for a couple of minutes, and then enjoy some great coffee without having to strain it through your teeth.
 
Agreed.

Fill pot with water, add ground coffee (not too fine), hang over coals/fire & bring to boil for 1/2 to 1 minute, remove from fire, let sit for 1/2 minute, add splash of cold water to settle grounds, serve. Delicious!
 
I had someone tell me to make coffee that way but with one difference. Take an egg, crack the top of it open, and put it in with the grounds.

In looking into it it sounds like it is Swedish egg coffee.

I have not tried it yet but I think I would need to strain it. I am not a big fan of grounds. I had a coffee crusted venison steak at a nice restaurant and it seemed like some one dredged it in flavorful sand. Flavorful does not make up for sand texture in my opinion
 
I didn't realize this coffee thread was so old!
Now I do an aeropress pretty often, but do cold drip coffee on some trips, I pre-make it, and take it in a couple little collapsible flasks, like the kind for sneaking booze around. For cowboy style coffee without the drips, get a coffee filter like the MSR pod thingy , that way you can brew as long as you want, and no crunch. I also do straight up cowboy style in my snowpeak trek800 Ti set. about half full of water, couple spoons of coffee, and once I get near the bottom, I have enough to swirl most of the grounds out into the bush.
 
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