Camp coffee

[Cruzatte]

Did I mention I roast my own beans?...There's nothing like a cup of home roasted fresh ground coffee.
I roast it outside in a cast iron skillet.(it will smoke your house up if you do it inside.) It's super easy and green coffee beans will last forever....You can also roast to your taste preference. I use a wall mount hand crank coffee grinder.... :thumbsup:

Where do you get green coffee beans?

Coffee Bean Corral It might be a little less expensive to get your green coffee from a local roaster, however. Haven't checked that out yet. But these folks are good to trade with.

 

[Wes/Tex]

There any number of dealers of green coffee beans on the internet...price varies from one to the other and takes a jump now if you buy 25 or 50 pound bags! Oh yeah, I'm getting 50 pounds!! Then selling door to door! :wink: :rotf:

 

[coloradoclyde]

I got 5 pounds for $15.00... That's about half the price of internet...Good stuff too....
The internet does offer a wider variety though.

Nice link. :thumbsup:

 

[Artificer]

Thanks for bringing up this subject. I have really enjoyed and learned a few things in this thread.

Had some "supposed to have been coffee" in the early 80's were someone boiled brown coffee beans in water and did not know what they were doing. Lord knows I have had coffee almost any way I could get it over the last half century, but that was the most horrible stuff I ever tasted.

FWIW in the later years this forum covered, the Yankee "Sutlers" (Civilian merchants who traveled with the Yankeee regiments and made a lot of money off the troops) had something called "dessicated" coffee and other foodstuffs that were not issued to the troops. "Dessicated" was the word they used as we would use the term "Dehydrated" today, but the troops often referred to it as "desecrated."

"Dessicated Coffee" came in small bricks, BUT already had cream and sugar mixed in. The idea was the soldiers could break off what they needed and stir it into hot/boiling water in the cup and they were all set. It was the "instant coffee" of the day. It must have been expensive, though, and there is not much mention of it after the WBTS until much later.

Gus

 

[coloradoclyde]

"Dessicated Coffee"

:shocked2: The horrors of war... :haha:

 

[tenngun]

“ Men, take that hill or by almighty God in heaven I shall keep you here drinking this coffee”. Burnside to his men below Fredricksburg heights.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Latrine fodder or cannon fodder...The fate of a conscript.

 

[Calum]

Interesting about the desiccated coffee. I've seen references to "essence of coffee”, which was a thick liquid containing coffee, cream and sugar. If memory serves right, it was initially produced by Bordon and was sold in cans.

Mike

 

[George]

"Dessicated Coffee" came in small bricks, BUT already had cream and sugar mixed in. The idea was the soldiers could break off what they needed and stir it into hot/boiling water in the cup and they were all set. It was the "instant coffee" of the day. It must have been expensive, though, and there is not much mention of it after the WBTS until much later.

The idea must have been planted, though. I have an ad from a store in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1866, offering "Coffee Essence".

Spence

 

[nhmoose]

Sounds like Folgers crystals to me. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[coloradoclyde]

The civil war was indeed a dark time for Americans......No one knew how to make a good cup of coffee.
Just think!....A peace envoy of French Baristas, and the war might have been averted.... :haha:

 

[tenngun]

There is the story of a man who was wronged by another and decided to kill him in revenge. But first he would have a smoke of his pipe. He smoked three pipes that day. After the first he decided a good thrasing instead of killing, after the second he decided to give a good chewing out, lastly he decided to forgive the other and left him in peace.
A good pot of coffee might have smoothed things out.
“Abe,Jeff , your latties are ready, now let’s work this out.”

 

[NeilMacleod]

I roast coffee regularly, wo batches today, the home made stuff is way better then the store stuff, buycoffeecanada.com

 

[Gene L]

Got to have coffee. When I was in the Army, 50+ years ago, we got instant coffee in C rations. You could mix it up in a canteen cup, if you carried one, and few of us did, so it mainly was thrown away. It wasn't Latte, but it was better than tea, for Christ's sake.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Dragonsfire,....That looks just like the way I do it... :thumbsup:
Blows store bought coffee right out of the water..
I use Costa Rican

 

[NeilMacleod]

Ethiopian Yirgacheffe FTO
Dominican FTO
Sumatra FTO
Guatemala FTO
Indian Monsoon Malabar
Costa Rica Rainforest Alliance
Brazil FTO
Colombian Supremo
Burundi Kayanza
Honduras
Peru FTO

To date I have roasted. Costa Rica the smoothest of them all, Peru next then Dominican and Guatamala top of my list.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Wow!...That quite a list...I'm not that big of a coffee fan....I can't stand drinking hot liquids in the summer. I like the Costa Rican stuff...If I brew it at the right temp it tastes almost chocolaty.....

 

[NeilMacleod]

I always let it cool, more flavour the cooler it gets, yup some taste like chocolate. I use 6 regulars now.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

When I was in the Army, 50+ years ago, we got instant coffee in C rations. You could mix it up in a canteen cup, if you carried one, and few of us did, so it mainly was thrown away. It wasn't Latte, but it was better than tea, for Christ's sake.

Ah well having had C-Rations, then MRE's while I was in the Corps, 30+ years ago, the coffee is sour..., it has some Vitamin C added to it. We used to pour it into the bag of hot chocolate, add enough cold water to liquefy the whole into a sort of thin "gravy" and eat the "mocha" with a spoon. :wink: Pepped you up, and you captured the calories, and didn't have to use a heat source that might give you away.

TEA? Sir, a properly prepared cup of tea is Vastly Superior to any form of "instant coffee". If one can secure some milk and sugar, it affords the drinker a small portion of genteel civilization often in the most inhospitable situations, and does not weigh much to do so. :wink:

LD

 

[George]

If one can secure some milk and sugar, it affords the drinker a small portion of genteel civilization often in the most inhospitable situations, and does not weigh much to do so.

Really? Cream and sugar? Is this a family problem, or are you the only one? :haha: :haha:

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