Making coffee whilst out walking & camping

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The Brew Company (Grower's Cup)

Fair enough scotroutes

Its a bit tricky really to find the best compromise.  I shall ponder about the grounds because I do not bag them and take them home.  Starts to get into the ” if one person does it no great foul but what if everyone does?” territory

to take all the grounds home from a cafetiere would really mean a filter to get the grounds out of the rinsing water and a dry bag to carry them in I guess

Hmmm food ( or coffee) for thought

I am not sure why the extra water is an issue?

Most of the time in campsites etc. it’s not.  It can be if you are wild camping, not pitched near a safe water source and relying on the water you are carrying. I’m not saying it’s a big issue, just a small consideration when weighing up the pros and cons of different kit.  As you say, it’s all about compromises.

If bike packing I take instant sachets ??????

I will admit to not taking coffee grounds home.  I am absolutely fastidious about leave no trace otherwise, so I suppose it’s a little hypocritical.  In my mind they are compostable, biodegradable plant matter. A few days from becoming soil. But I get the argument that if everyone did it, it would be bad and I’ve also read recently that I might be introducing nutrients into fragile soil ecosystems that wouldn’t otherwise be there.  I promise to mend my ways! <sheepish, blushing emoji>

But who takes their turds home?  Some hardcore wildcampers are now suggesting this ( there was an e coli outbreak at a bothy because of contaminated water source from too many folk shitting around the bothy IIRC)  I have found lovely campsites surrounded by half buried turds

If bike packing I take instant sachets ??????

Your kind isn’t welcome round here. 😉

Aeropress go (or just the normal one?)

James Hoffmann raised a good point about the Go….. why smaller? The normal Aeropress is small enough.

Some hardcore wildcampers are now suggesting this ( there was an e coli outbreak at a bothy because of contaminated water source from too many folk shitting around the bothy IIRC)

In the US, park rangers will search your kit when leaving a trail, no poo you get fined.

Never take water down stream of a bothy, a few years ago, in a Sutherland bothy, there was a French lad who was incapacitated for 2 days, from doing just that. He looked absolutely terrible.

Indeed a few years ago I started to take grounds home – an advantage of the drip if I use a paper filter. I too realised I was taking everything other than poop and coffee grounds home, so should step up.

Poop container is a stretch too far for me currently…

If bike packing I take instant sachets ??????

Heresy and I’m therefore also a heretic 🙂

Enough luggage space issues on short tour type rides through having cheaper, bulkier kit without adding something else bulky just to make two cups of coffee a day.

To add to this blasphemy, mediocre coffee in the outdoors will always trump better coffee anywhere else.

the jetboi8l attachment packs away inside it and weighs 8g.

Its the one luxury I insist on ( well a couple of others actually as well)

ON my big bike ride I was astonished that loads of folk with huge amounts of luggage had nothing to make coffee with.  I used it as an ice breaker on campsites – offering folk without good coffee a cup.  always went down well.

Aeropress go in the van or static camping

GSI ultralight java drip if I’m bivvying

Flask for day walks

To add to this blasphemy, mediocre coffee in the outdoors will always trump better coffee anywhere else.

This. If I’m truly “in the moment” then the quality of the coffee is a lot less important than whatever else I’m feeling. The same is, of course not true when it comes to whisky.

James Hoffmann raised a good point about the Go….. why smaller? The normal Aeropress is small enough.

But the normal Aeropress doesn’t collapse down to a mug sized object with all parts inside it. If you are carrying it in your rucksack it really matters. If you’re in a car then who cares

The same is, of course not true when it comes to whisky.

Definitely!

The advantage of the whisky situation is that it takes up exactly the same amount of space regardless of quality so you can go upmarket with no downsides.

Although I’m also now disappearing down the rabbit hole of scoping out other people’s lightweight coffee set ups.

Next, what lightweight leaf tea set up….

Although I’m also now disappearing down the rabbit hole of scoping out other people’s lightweight coffee set ups.

I might need to weigh mine – ti everything, one esbit, one filter paper and pourer, plastic mug, coffee grounds, lighter…

If you want a physics lesson at the same time then the esbit coffee maker is great. Fuel tablets are getting harder to come by though.

https://esbit.de/en/products/camping-coffee-maker

Garage dweller – tea ball – / reusable tea bag

Kelly kettle.

Tin mugs.

Ground coffee.

Put the coffee in your mug. Add the water. Leave for several minutes. Drink, except for the last bit.

Jetboil, Aeropress Go and ground coffee in a ziplock bag or small airtight pot does it for me.

On a longer trip, a trangia w kettle works for cowboy coffee in a mug. But that assumes you’re doing other catering on the trangia for the trip and not a quick night away.

If you work your grounds right you can create a snail proof barrier so no slime encroachment into the tent porch

I keep my coffee in a very small dry bag.  Takes a full bag from the shops but keeps it sealed from air and reduces in size as I use it.  Best solution I have found

But the normal Aeropress doesn’t collapse down to a mug sized object with all parts inside it.

I think the point is the normal Aeropress makes a full mug’s worth of coffee and had been used for nearly a decade and a half as the travel/backpack/office solution for good coffee. The Go is made shorter to fit in a mug it can only half fill (granted unless it has Tardis like capabilities that would always be the case with this design of the coffee maker).

A travel case/mug for the normal Aeropress would have been what, 2.5 cm longer than the Go’s overall size? Ah, but then they can’t sell you two products. So you have to buy the new size, see also 650b/29er wheels.

I have both. My Go hasn’t been used in forever, I’m attached to my OG aeropress.

This has kept me brewed up in plenty of places where instant was the only offering.

In the new year I’ll be looking at the retention for the inside, needs a revisit to tweak it further.

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Put the coffee in your mug. Add the water. Leave for several minutes. Drink, except for the last bit.

Top tip….once your coffee has steeped for a couple of minutes, splash a little bit of cold water in. It has an unnerving ability to take the grounds to the bottom of the mug.

I’m cowboy coffee when space is tight and aeropress when I’ve got a bit more space. Though a very small Mokapot looks a lot classier in an insta kind of way if that’s the way you roll.

I did tend to use an Aeropress. But now I tend to brew the coffee at home and take it in a flask. Much less hassle.

Nobody taking a grinder? Are you animals?

(yes, I’m kidding)

Next, what lightweight leaf tea set up….

I’d just chuck it straight into the mug. It’s how my grandad drank it, I was probably in my 20s when I discovered via somewhat startled friends who were visiting that this wasn’t what everyone did.

Is this peak STW, or are we building up to NY’s eve?

Next, what lightweight leaf tea set up….

Aeropress or Hario V60 and filters.

Various set-ups depending on where I’m going/ how I’m getting there.
1. Snow Peak titanium French press and Snow Peak hand burr grinder for visiting the parents/ in-laws. Enough coffee for the wife and I to cope.
2. Snow Peak collapsible V60 / pre-ground coffee/ Soto burner for camping or sightseeing gravel rides.
3. just got a Wacaco minipresso for Xmas. Will use that with the coffee grinder and burner for post snowboard carpark espresso for designated driver apres tomorrow

Is this peak STW, or are we building up to NY’s eve?

Think we have a winner

just got a Wacaco minipresso for Xmas. Will use that with the coffee grinder and burner for post snowboard carpark espresso for designated driver apres tomorrow

I have a dinky little one cup mokka pot which makes an OK espresso (like) coffee.

Or I can do coffee bags direct in a cup and just boil it for extra long (still pretty weak)

Least faff and bulk is still instant sachets, but also least pleasant to drink…