I know, to some extent, that people have discussed this topic here before and I have gotten a couple of good ideas, but I thought I would ask for a little more info... Does anyone have a particular method for making their coffee on the road or in the great outdoors? I'm hoping to do a lot of camping/traveling this summer and I'm making it my goal to drink coffee the same way I do now (by that I mean frequently and with my roasted coffee). I plan to try new ways of doing this and have even more new coffee adventures and am open to anything (even excited about cowboy coffee)! Roasting? Storing? Grinding? Brewing? Consuming? Whatever! So let me know if you have any input or stories, or anything you can relate to this topic!!! Thanks!!! Andy Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail athttp://www.hotmail.com |
Well, I can't help you with roasting. But I did have a couple of back-to-back trips recently, and what I did was to take along some freshly roasted and ground coffee, in one of Tom's "valve" bags. And I got the "french press in a travel cup" from Starbucks. Hot water, ground coffee, wait, press, drink. Ahhh! Much better than hotel coffee, anyway. =Spencer Andrew Bowman wrote: <Snip> |
<Snip> ab> Does anyone have a particular method for making their coffee on ab> the road or in the great outdoors? I'm hoping to do a lot of ab> camping/traveling this summer and I'm making it my goal to drink ab> coffee the same way I do now (by that I mean frequently and with ab> my roasted coffee). I plan to try new ways of doing this and have ab> even more new coffee adventures and am open to anything (even ab> excited about cowboy coffee)! Roasting? Storing? Grinding? ab> Brewing? Consuming? Whatever! So let me know if you have any ab> input or stories, or anything you can relate to this topic!!! I did electricity-free coffee for a Y2K party. Roast peaberries in a pan over your kerosene stove. Grind with a handmill. Boil water on the stove and press. Dead easy, and tasted great with no practice. For a coffee, I'd recommend a peaberry, so that it rolls around more freely in the pan. Consider a Colombian or Mexican that doesn't require a particular roast, so it's more forgiving. -- Tim Culver Chapel Hill, NC ... popper ... trespade ... press pot |
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I find the French Press the best road and field brewer. With a hand grinder
you can have the fresh ground coffee and if you are in the field long
enough, a pan over the fire will fresh roast the beans.
At home, I'd put the French Press third after a decent espresso pump machine
and a vacuum pot.
Wok on Wood.
Jim Gundlach
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I use an aluminum one tasse moka pot. I've been allowing myself the luxury of a pseudo espresso on the way back while cleaning up camp on my recent trips. Since my trips tend to be 2 or three days, I pre-grind just enough coffee for the pot put it in a zip lock and carry it along. Works fine. My 2 cents worth. Richard Andrew Bowman wrote: <Snip> -- Richard Schwaninger "The mountain is yours only after you return, until then, you belong to the mountain." H. Kammerlander |
<Snip> We camp (in a pop-up lately) at various music festivals in the summer, and we always have coffee in the morning before things get going. We take along enough whole bean home roast to last the duration. We grind it before each brew, and brew in a Nissan thermal presspot. Tastes just like at home, but we get some kidding about how much fuss we go to.... Until this year, we have been storing the beans in an ice chest or more recently in the camper refrigerator. From now on though, unless it is beastly hot I plan on storing them at ambient temperature..... I like the way the beans tase when developed at room temperature instead of in the fridge. Especially Yemen Moka Ismali. Paul Goelz Rochester Hills, MI pgoelz at eaglequest dot com Videoastronomy and music web site:http://www.eaglequest.com/~pgoelz |
Eastern mountain sports in Chicago carries two sizes of plastic French Presses. Bring a hand grinder or pre-grind per your own pref erences. Tom sells a bunch of great hand grinders and also had a plastic one that, while not as accurate, is indestructable. Maybe he can direct you to a source. For pre-grinding I'm not convinced a valve bag will do any better than a ziplock (for this set of ci rcumstances only). Others have already told you about roasting. You're all set. :) Bob C. rcantor |
Andy, what wort of camping outfit will you be taking with you? That will determine how to advise you. Backpacking with a tiny gas stove is a whole lot more constraining to coffee brewing methods than life in a pickup camper. -Bryce |
Bryce, I am still in the preliminary stages of planning our first trip for the summer, but we will be packing. No campers, SUVs, cabins, or anything beyond tents and campfires. We might aquire a stove but I haven't decided if I want to take one or not. Thanks for the informative responses so far. Andy ----Original Message Follows---- From: Bryce Decker Reply-To: homeroast To: "INTERNET:homeroast" Subject: + "Roughing It" Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:01:01 -0400 Andy, what wort of camping outfit will you be taking with you? That will determine how to advise you. Backpacking with a tiny gas stove is a whole lot more constraining to coffee brewing methods than life in a pickup camper. -Bryce Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail athttp://www.hotmail.com |
Just curious...Where did you find a Nissan thermal presspot? Or did you
mean a combonation of Nissan thermos and presspot.
Also, by the way, I just got a free pound of Peet's coffee in the mail which
I wasn't quite expecting and can't possibly consume right away because I
have a bunch of my coffee already roasted so I stuck it in the freezer.
Never done this before (freezing coffee). Should be interesting. Also,
I've never had Peet's before so it will be nice to see what the fuss is
about!
As for people having a laugh at you for your obsessive coffee
ways...well...who is the happier camper?
Andy
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From: Paul Goelz
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To: homeroast
Subject: Re: + "Roughing It"
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:44:50 -0400
>Does anyone have a particular method for making their coffee on the road
or
>in the great outdoors?
We camp (in a pop-up lately) at various music festivals in the summer, and
we always have coffee in the morning before things get going. We take
along enough whole bean home roast to last the duration. We grind it
before each brew, and brew in a Nissan thermal presspot. Tastes just like
at home, but we get some kidding about how much fuss we go to....
Until this year, we have been storing the beans in an ice chest or more
recently in the camper refrigerator. From now on though, unless it is
beastly hot I plan on storing them at ambient temperature..... I like the
way the beans tase when developed at room temperature instead of in the
fridge. Especially Yemen Moka Ismali.
Paul Goelz
Rochester Hills, MI
pgoelz at eaglequest dot com
Videoastronomy and music web site:http://www.hotmail.com">http://www.eaglequest.com/~pgoelzGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail athttp://www.hotmail.com |
Andrew Bowman wrote: <Snip> Happier or more content? I would assume those laughing are happier. Sorry. Robusta Richard -- Richard Schwaninger "The mountain is yours only after you return, until then, you belong to the mountain." H. Kammerlander |
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I am still in the preliminary stages of planning our first trip for the
summer, but we will be packing. No campers, SUVs, cabins, or anything
beyond tents and campfires. We might aquire a stove but I haven't decided
if I want to take one or not.
Thanks for the informative responses so far.
Andy<
If you are carrying everything on your back, some compromises with
a gourmet's soul are called for. The extra weight and bulk of a hand
grinder and a French press might be more than you want to pack. If you
leave them behind, roast, rest, and coarse (french press calibre) grind
your coffee before you leave and keep the coffee scrupulously away from the
open air in ziploc or screw down plastic containers. If you'll be on the
trail for many days, favor several containers over a single large one.
Cowboy coffee is easy. Bring the water to a boil in a pan. Take
the pan off the fire and pour the coffee into the water and let it steep in
the pan. Decant it into cups through a strainer. Strainers don't weigh
much and keep grounds out of your teeth.
Roasting in an open pan is a bit trickier, but it is done by folks
in the third world every day. Trouble is, for best results you need a
heavy heat-holding cast iron skillet or a high-sided chicken fryer --
hardly practical for packing on your back. Also, the small heating source
on a portable back packer's stove makes it hard to concentrate enough heat
to do justice to a coffee-roasting job. You need the intense heat of a
deep bed of coals from a wood fire, or the generous flame from a
kitchen-sized gas stove. Stir the beans without stopping until they begin
to smoke. At that point, ideally no longer than about 20 minutes max, you
will want to pay very close attention to the color and appearance of the
beans to make sure they look like the roast you like. Think ahead about
how you will cool the beans quickly. The beans will not roast uniformly
under these conditions. Take gloves or use a wooden spoon to stir with.
It will not be a perfect roast, but in camp, it will taste good
anyway.
Good camping. I'm too old to back pack anymore, but I am with you
in spirit.
Cheers, -Bryce
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I handgrind (zassenhaus mill) a "recent roast" and brew in a Bodum Press pot. The concensus here looks like they agree! It beats percolated, or drip, a vacuum is too much to carry and subject to break, roasting consumes too much time, no electricity pretty much rules out an electric pump espresso, a lever espresso is too heavy anyway, and again lack of electricity rules out electric grinding on the trail. Fresh roast lasts a week easily at ambient temperatures sealed in a bag or jar. Roasting is probably too time consuming as other activities are planned and equipment is at a minimum. Handgrind, boil water, press pot is about all the time and equipment I can afford. |
"G. Dyer" wrote: <Snip> That's my plan when I go camping. A friend is having a wedding at City Park here in Austin in May. Nice place right on Lake Austin, it's a wedding campout, because that's the kind of folks they are. Last time we were camping, (well they were, I was visiting) at the Bluegrass Festival in Dripping Springs (another nice place), he pulled out the Bodum Press Pot and I was bummed that I didn't even think of bringing some fresh roasted beans for them. This time I'm camping out and bringing lots of Hamburgo, and beer and tequila, too. ;o) -- Dave Clark Austin, Texashttp://www.jump.net/~davec N 30d 27.526m mailto:davec W 97d 48.826m Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. |
deadheads makin' fanTAStic coffee in the parking lot!!! irie, --cap'n bob Paul Goelz wrote: <Snip> |
<Snip> Ha, ha. This is what I always do with Peet's coffee, since I visit Berkeley once or twice a year but don't live there! --PR |
Hi, PR, ironically enough I can go with this thread ( I have 500 posts I want to read so I am quickly reading this ) I have not much to report on that SCAA. They seemed to think it was the biggest in the world this year. I 'roughed' it catching and absorbing anything fresh and lots of frozen stuff (coffee people!) My summary is that I have learnt more on this list than any gathering of legendary coffee officiandos and believe me they had my full attention.- bean'wild! |
<Snip> or <Snip> <Snip> Does this mean you were Greatful?! -Toms turkish grinder, (still going strong after being dropped 2 stories onto concrete) Dick Heggs' glass poppered leftover yerg he didnt wanna roast, wood fired melted snow thru swiss gold filter - ye ha this was hardly roughing it! -bean'wild! in the wilds. |
I saw this advertised in Coffee Journal a few years ago... never tried it: |