Camp Coffee

K Williams

K Williams

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How do you all make your camp coffee? How many spoonfuls of ground coffee work for one cup of strong coffee?
 
The real secret is straining it through dirty socks and using Irish whisky instead of bourbon.

I usually just eyeball a whole bunch of coffee and if it's too strong, use the grounds again.
 
I don`t bother measuring how much coffe I put in the kettle. Just add enough. How do I know how much that is enough? Well, that is based on experience.
If it`s strong coffe you`re after just add a LOT:) .
 
Coffee singles are the only way to travel. If ya want strong coffee, ya use 2.:D

When I carried bulk coffee and a camp pot, I used one of the enameled cups to measure out the coffee. If I remember right, I put half of a cup in the pot and then when it came to a boil and was near ready, I'd crack an egg in the pot and threw the shells in for good measure.
 
there was a great article in field and stream about camp coffee, i think they might have deleted it. anyhow, use the freshest grind you can get, add to the boiling water, and take off boil, add one cup of cold water tto the coffee when you are ready to pour, this settles the coffee grounds and pour slowly this to keep the grounds on the bottom.

alex
 
My wife and I used to use an old beater percolator, but the glass knob on top finally broke. Last summer we picked up a lexan french press. It works great. We even use it at home.
--Josh
 
Well, if we're talking equipment, there are aluminum 2 cup drip makers out there in the 2d hand market (Think Goodwill, Salvation Army, etc) that work just fine. They were made of aluminum so heavy that they last and last. You need a separate pot, pan, old can, to heat the water, but that's no biggie.

How much? For "strong" coffee, you might start out at 3 level teaspoons per 8 oz. of water and adjust from there.
 
It sits on top of the cup and drips directly into it. Tastes like home brew. The French press works great for a gang too.
 
I use actual coffie beans. I keep them in a small burlap sack, I also carry an even smaller silk sack inside it. I take out maybe 3-4 beans put em in the small silk sack...used the back of my knife for a malet, crush them up..add to boiling water...wait till you think strong enuf, add a tip of cold water to settle grains...walla, a one man cup o coffie.
Your taist might vairy on the amount of beans being used, and I was talking about a small one cupper cup (an actual one cup, cup)
 
it's usually those little tea-bag type coffee things...

however, before then, or when I score ground coffee from some nearby store, I take an empty can (for me, usually a fruit cocktail can), punch a very small hole in the bottom (enough for a slow drip) put a few tablespoons of coffee in it, and then fill it with boiling water. I then sit the can over a cup. Stir it every once in a while to prevent clogging. I also like to put condensed sweetened milk in it too. I think the French and Dutch do that, but I learned that one in SE Asia.
 
This is how you make "Cowboy coffee".

- Boil the coffee grinds with the water
- after it boils add a couple spoons of filtered cold water, the grinds with instantly rise to the top
- pour yourself a cup of fresh coffee!

This only works with a kettle that has a spout that pours from the bottom.

Or, for you Nancy Boys, there's instant coffee!

Collecter
 
Nancy boys is right.

Cowboy coffee should be tough and make you look tough drinking it.

A press is the most elegant of course but I think my favorite method is.
Grind beans before you leave.
Boil water, let cool about 40 seconds then pour about 1.5-2 cups of water on nearly a quarter cup of grounds.
Let sit for 4 minutes (if you can wait that long).
Then spoon a little of the floaters off and dump some milk in.

Smile big cowboy! you've got grounds in them teeth.
Chew/spit grounds and drink that java.

Yeehaw!
No one will doubt your cowboyness.
 
The other day I found a couple of coffeee bags in my ruck, since I was in the mood for a cuppa coffee I brewed one up. After one sip & dumping the rest down the drain I realized that the coffee bags had been in my pack for 22 years. I really should clean out my packs more often! :D
Gene
 
Cowboy coffee -- yikes! If you ever need a field expedient for etching glass, that might work ;)

Color me "Nancy" I guess. I use premixed baggies of instant with sugar and creamer too. (I like my intestinal lining the way it is.)

I need to figure out a cold coffee drink, for those ultra-light, no-cooking summer hikes.

Scott
 
Man am I spoiled!!! At camp I grind up fresh beans for 12 seconds then use one scoop for every two cups.

Makes perfect coffee every time!!!
 
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