Coffee.....what do you like?

We have a Cuisinart Grind and Brew for home too and love it, but we use San Francisco Fair Trade coffee beans.

We have doing the grind and brew of colombian dark coffee beans for some time now... We use the Eight O'clock COLOMBIAN PEAKS brand of Bean coffee (always available from WALMART)... Works out great for our camping trips as it only take about five minutes to grind and brew using the Cuisinart DGB-600BC Coffee maker.

Our OFF-ROAD style of camping always has us running our 2KW Generator first thing each morning at 8AM to re-charge our 50% depleted 255Ah battery bank and that is a great time to make our coffee for the day.
We can run our generator again in the early evening and make up another pot to hold us through the night.

The Cuisinart brews up our fresh ground bean coffee is just five minutes of being on the generator and pours up into a thermo carafe...



Our back-up coffee maker is the Coleman camp fire peculator brewing fresh ground Colombian coffee beans using a Mr Coffee Bean grinder running off our Inverter setup... Comes up almost the same as using the Cuisinart brewer...



We always carry the same brand of bottled water for all of our coffee making which insures we get the same coffee taste we enjoy from every brewed pot..

Camping and good ole fresh grind and brewed bean coffee goes hand-in-hand with us...

Roy Ken

Kirkland, 100% Columbian, Supremo Bean, Dark Roast, Fine Grind, $10 - $11 for 3 lbs. Use it in the stove top percolator and the Farberware electric percolator depending on if we are dry camping or have hookups.

We roast our own in a air popcorn popper. Here is a sample of what we've tried:
1. Indonesian Sumatra Takengo
2. Mexican Terruno Nayarita
3. Colombian Supremo Popayan
4. Indian Monsooned
5. Congo Kivu Sopacdi
6. Ethiopia Yergacheff
7. Brazil

If you buy green coffee beans you can roast em yourself. There are no fillers and you know exactly what you are getting.

Some green beans are most flavorful roasted both light and dark. Toasting is not difficult. It only takes 5-9 minutes per batch.

There are so many types of beans we intend to use going forward.

Our personal favorites rank:

a. Congo
b. Colombia
c. Mexican

Have some different types coming. We will watch to see if anyone is interested in how they turn out.

PS. Have roasted while camping! What a smell to wake up to in the morning. I store fresh roasted beans in Mason or Ball canning jars with lids. Each morning for a few days, I burp the jars as they build up gas.

Starbucks Yukon whole bean.

8 O'Clock Original - whole bean. Grind it ourselves and use a drip coffee maker.

sremsing wrote:
Folgers classic roast medium blend.

Our whole family likes this. Personally I like tea.

DH likes Starbucks or the Folger's Black Silk

I guess I simply slum it as I drink Maxwell House Instant coffee.

Folgers Classic Roast from a Bunn Coffee maker.


C.B.