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AZ Flyer wrote:

How does that Jetboil work for coffee? How many “pot’s/cups” can you get on a canister?

Not sure about the Jetboils (Which are great stoves), but we have several of the small GSI's we use for the guide service. I don't think they have the same brute force of the Jetboils, but we can cook for a group of 5-6 (Preheating over a campfire helps a ton) on 1 1/2 of the larger canisters for a three day backpacking or lightweight canoe trip. I can go out for a few days solo on one small canister, but I usually take a larger one.

Pete

That looks like the ‘standard’ size original JetBoil, which has a 500 ml fill line - so 2 cups. There’s larger ones but I like the original. It’s quick, compact, and all I’ve ever needed for serving two people.

Yeah, I own a coffee roasting company, and the jet boil works great for hiking as a compromise, because of the weight, but it is not ideal cause you have to boil the water and then add the coffee. … the cobbler’s children have no shoes!

Stanley actually has a line of 48 ounce ones that will get you four or five nice cups of coffee and are made quite well,… for Firecreek Coffee I am probably getting a bunch of custom ones made from a company called Bru Tek that also has an insulated 48 ounce one that is nice.

AZ Flyer wrote:Yeah, I own a coffee roasting company, and the jet boil works great for hiking as a compromise, because of the weight, but it is not ideal cause you have to boil the water and then add the coffee. … the cobbler’s children have no shoes!

Stanley actually has a line of 48 ounce ones that will get you four or five nice cups of coffee and are made quite well,… for Firecreek Coffee I am probably getting a bunch of custom ones made from a company called Bru Tek that also has an insulated 48 ounce one that is nice.

Mike you're going to need to start a new coffee tech thread then. I always took my little mesh cone filter with me camping, the kind that has a little tripod that clips to your cup rim, but nowadays I'd prob bring the Aeropress. I recently fell for this FB ad for this little device called the Finalpress...it's like a tea strainer that you can make coffee with. I couldn't get my grind coarse enough for it to avoid sludge but it's a well made little unit. Brew is not as good as an Aero but it sure is compact.

Yeah, those devices look good in theory, although it’s hard to be an aeropress or a french press where you can stir the grounds in the water. A bigger difference is made by the grinder, hard to beat a really good conical burr grinder, I’d rather have a good grinder and a cheap french press than the other way around. And a hand grinder helps you warm up while you’re waiting for the water to heat!

I bought a Heihox grinder a couple years ago and really like it.

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Maybe it is what you guys are refering to, but Jetboil sells a compack item thats a coffe press. I bought one, but have never tried it. I just biol the water and use intant coffe since I use the jetboil for other items. Once you make coffe in it, seems like everything you cook in it afterwards has a slight coffee smell/taste. I'm not a big coffee drinker so it's probably just me.

Do you know Victor at Lost Dutchman, by any chance? I've been buying my coffee from him for years hot out of the roaster.

Wayne

The Aeropress is where it's at. I originally bought one just for camping, but now it's what I use at home as well. I used to use the Jetboil French Press accessory, but as noted above, once you use your Jetboil as a press, it's hard to get it truly clean. The Aeropress cleans up super easily and makes excellent coffee. Well worth the very minimal extra space.

I'm a bit old school, and started airplane camping out of the Pacer so weight was a bit more important.
I use an MSR whisperlite international for a stove. Not as clean/easy as a jetboil or other canister stove but I like not needing canisters, and I have burned a blend of white gas(coleman fuel) and mogas when needed.

I've gone through a number of coffee implements as well. I've got a GSI Javamill grinder, no replacement for a good burr grinder.
Sometimes I carry a french press, even a glass one because I am not smart. I've also used a mokapot, and the camping clip tripod pourover setup. All can make a nice cup.

These days, and I fully understand this may get me permabanned from the halls of coffee snobbery, I've been drinking freeze dried from a local roaster.
It's not french press, which is not pour over, etc etc, but it's a darn good cup of coffee, very conveniently. I'd challenge anyone to do a blind tasting and tell me it's not good. I bring it when we travel internationally as well, One of the few things I miss eating overseas is bottomless drip coffee, this fills the void nicely.

WWhunter wrote:..... I just boil the water and use instant coffe ........

Me too.
Drip coffee maker at home with costco coffee, instant when camping.
I'm sure glad I'm not a coffee snob-- saves me a lot of time & money.

Oh hell, I keep a box of Starbucks Via packets on hand just in case. It's amazing for what it is. But unless you're on a serious mission, you have plenty of time to kill in camp. Making a good cup of real coffee next to the airplane is just fun. Plus, if you don't have a Skywagon you have to lord your supremacy over the betas in some other way.

I am totally old school. I really like boiled/percolated coffee. I honestly think it's the process more than taste. When it's just me I have a old two cup percolator that I take. I found it at our house (It's the house my dad grew up in, so I like to think maybe he used it as well) and it goes on every solo trip with me. If it's me and the Mrs. or if I am guiding a larger group I just scale up pot size to the number of people on the trip, ending with a 20 cup pot for Cowboy coffee. Luckily most of the camping trips I go on are water based ( canoe or raft) so space generally isn't a issue. I was gifted a coffee press/ mug that I have used once on a backpacking trip. Went back to the percolator.

Pete

Oh yeah, I completely misunderstood the question on the Jetboil capacity on the earlier thread...

Zzz wrote:Oh hell, I keep a box of Starbucks Via packets on hand just in case. It's amazing for what it is. But unless you're on a serious mission, you have plenty of time to kill in camp. Making a good cup of real coffee next to the airplane is just fun. Plus, if you don't have a Skywagon you have to lord your supremacy over the betas in some other way.

For the Canucks on the site Tim's sells instant coffee packets as well.

Tim Hortons is pretty low grade to start with not sure it improves as a instant coffee.

I do carry the jet boil and some instant green bi—ch coffee for emergency use only.

My go to is the french press with locally roasted coffee ( we have 3 very good roasters up here ) thats where I spend my cash.

Ok go ahead call me a coffee snob. It is my last and the least damaging bad habit.

My coffee palate isn't very "refined".

Cheapskate coffee gear for camping (or power outages).
Works for me.

Yeah, I'm another Aeropress believer. My wife is from central Europe and has been a longtime fan of Lavazza Qualita Oro coffee. Since that's what we have at home, that's what I take airplane camping. I also take a little battery whisk so I can froth my milk and make a latte expresso surrogate. The Maule has a LOT more useful load than I use since my wife is done sleeping on the ground. Here's a typical airplane campsite with my Aeropress, my latte, my whisk (in the protective metal cylinder) and some scratch made biscuits and gravy. I take a stovetop oven to make the biscuits.

c180pilot wrote:Do you know Victor at Lost Dutchman, by any chance? I've been buying my coffee from him for years hot out of the roaster.

Wayne

Hi Wayne,

I met him about 15 years ago and he left a positive impression!… We have been mostly in Northern Arizona,… I started a project during Covid, found an old 1940s department store that had been vacant for a long time and had the brilliant idea of building it into a coffee Roastery/music venue,… It was a regulatory and cost overrun design propagation, nightmare, …I did a lot of work myself cost estimates and completion time tripled. Long story short we just opened, and I am working down in the valley more and hope to run into him again.

… Yep, there is actually some better freeze dried coffee out there now. … What what’s old is new again
Strictly for medicinal purposes, I have traveled with a few packs of Starbucks via.

This is a 206 thing, but I’ve carried around a few 5 gallon kegs of my cold brew at times.