Come on over for campfire coffee

I'm 30 and still obtaining a taste and desire for coffee. That said, I use the K-Cups in a generic "keurig" type machine, I like the Mountain Blend (Private Selection by Kroger) and some flavored creamer, depending on the day.

My very favorite camping trip of the year is our family float trip in Southern Mo. I get up and make two pots to start. Just Folgers Black Silk. Good deep rich flavor. One in a Mr Coffe and the other in a old drip pot I keep for if the power is out. I then set up a coffee tray with all the fixings. Brown sugar, creamer, mugs, spoons, what ever is needed. Then I haul it all out the door. When my my kids and grandkids hear me making my way out with the coffee they begin to emerge from their tents ready for that first cup. Love that first morning gathering with everyone relaxed and talking about plans for the day. We make a couple more pots and stretch it out for a good hour.

On the road I serve us Peet's french roast (half reg/half decaf). So depending on hookups vs boon-docking I either will use the electric coffee maker or the stove top peculator.

Great conversation subject. Happy Trails and Happy New Year.

West Beachhouse

Community Brand coffee in a drip coffee maker.
We found Community Brand coffee on a trip to New Orleans and just loved the taste. Since trying it we haven't used anything else.

Love me some percolated coffee...folgers 100% Columbian dark in a stainless percolator over the campfire. Put it in a Contigo Auto seal mug (the best travel mug there is) and it's a good morning.

That's if someone else is making it. I'm usually too lazy and just use the drip maker inside the TT!

Fresh ground coffee beans, brewed in a glass percolator on the Coleman camp stove outside the TT.

For about the last 6 months we heat 32 oz water in a stove top pan to 195 f and dump in 4 oz of ground Kirkland French roast or sometimes Peets. We dump it thru a fine hand strainer into 16 Oz mugs.

In the past we've done the French press method but it's really no different than a pan of hot water and a strainer.

The grounds are dumped into a trash can and the pan immediately wiped out with a tissue or half piece of paper towel.

DannyA wrote:
Community Brand coffee in a drip coffee maker.
We found Community Brand coffee on a trip to New Orleans and just loved the taste. Since trying it we haven't used anything else.

X2....Community Brand dark roast coffee is the best IMO.

I must have my one cup every morning !
I grind it fresh like talcum powder from Eight O'clock Columbian beans just before using it and then brew it in a $15 Mr Coffee.
Come taste it, you'll never go back to yours !

Jack L

I don't drink coffee at all. I never have. I have never acquired the taste for it. But my wife is an avid (multiple pots of coffee a day) drinker!

However, I usually buy the coffee (really) and she usually selects the type of coffee pot. About the "cooking" device?

My wife has a little 4 cup drip coffee maker (electric) in the camper. She also has a small hand-held bean grinder. And she has an old style over-the-fire (blue color) percolator.

We tossed out our old over-the-fire percelator when we moved from tent camping to PUP and TT camping. Then one morning last Summer the campground lost power!

I ended up using a coffee filter in a cooking funnel, and put the coffee grounds in there. Then boiled water in a pot on the stove (gas you know), and poured it into the funnel and let it drip into a cup. It was a slow pain-staking method, but she said it was one of the best cups of coffee she ever had. I think she was just BS-ing me, making me feel better because I put so much effort into getting her the coffee. But, I appreciated her comments.

That's when we both decided we needed a back-up coffee pot. Next time we went to WallMart we picked up one of those over-the-fire percolators again. We've never used it, but in the event of another power outage, I won't have to go through that mess again. It will work just fine on the stove top.

Now, a word about the coffee itself. I don't drink coffee, but I sure like the aroma. So I have a pretty good nose. I pick the coffees, and try to never get the same kind twice in a row. I like the smell of the flavored coffees, but do also get the unflavored also. I've purchased about every kind of coffee available, and I think my wife really likes it this way, because she gets such a variety.

I recently discovered a Hawaiian themed coffee which she really like. I sometimes get beans, since we have a grinder in both the house and the camper, I keep some instant on hand (but she doesn't use that very much).

The reason I get the coffee, is because she ran into the mind set that she would get the cheapest priced on the shelf. Well, I started thinking about that and took charge! I decided the cheapest price is not the way to go. We have so very few means of entertainment, we don't "party", we don't consume alcohol except at New Year or our anniversary, and we are pretty much home-bodies. So this is one little way I decided she could be spoiled. So I get the coffee and it's my way of spoiling her a little. That's why I get such a variety