Coffee on board

[Richard19068]

I drink 2-3 cups/day. I like coffee enough to buy the hipster stuff, but I'm not enough of a nerd to grind my own.

How about you?

If you really enjoy (not just like) coffee, grinding beans just before brewing makes a big difference and takes only a minute or two with a small hand grinder if you are making just a cup or two at a time.
I will gladly suffer being called a nerd if that's what it takes to enjoy the difference.

Here is a reasonable hand grinder for anything but espresso.

Amazon.com

 

[Stu Jackson]

I use a #6 Melitta filter into a ss thermos, makes more than six cups, stays hot all day, pre-ground coffee usually Tim Horton's dark, I'm Canadian... I make it strong, recognizing it ain't perfect. Sometimes I'd buy "better" coffee, too, jut to treat myself. At home I use it too along with a cup of espresso from our machine (which unfortunately just broke!). I used a French press for a while, but it was far messier to clean than just dumping the used full filter into the trash.

 

[AaronD]

1 cup - Aeropress Coffee Maker - Original. Best coffee ever but messy to clean.
>1 cup - Melitta Thermal Pour Over. Very good coffee and the thermal carafe keeps the coffee hot not warm but hot for a couple of hours.
Ground beans always.

If you really enjoy (not just like) coffee, grinding beans just before brewing makes a big difference and takes only a minute or two with a small hand grinder if you are making just a cup or two at a time.
I will gladly suffer being called a nerd if that's what it takes to enjoy the difference.

Here is a reasonable hand grinder for anything but espresso.

Amazon.com

(or +100) to Aeropress.

The Porlex Mini grinder nests inside it - probably not the ideal grinder, but a nice compact travel setup, and it's worked well enough for me. Likely to eventually be replaced with an Outin Fino to save a little more wear on the arthritis in my wrist.

Hot water from stainless tea kettle (keeping the tea drinkers happy as well).

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~700w for ~3-4 minutes to boil, so ~50 w/h from the battery bank including inverter losses. Primary backup if batteries are low is a Jetboil (but the right answer there is a little more solar).

 

[degas]

... grinding beans just before brewing makes a big difference...

Now I'm curious. Thanks for the info.

I will gladly suffer being called a nerd if that's what it takes to enjoy the difference.

There is no shame but joy in sharing what we each nerd out on. If only there were more nerds.

 

[Calif. Ted]

Bailey's is $25 here, I'm currently using his white trash cousin's brew Dempsey's at $9.99. I tell everyone I use it instead of cream because it doesn't need refrigeration. It's got to be healthier than that bodged up coffee "creamer" so many use.
Oddly I have a twenty+ year old glass french press on board that has not broken, rusted or otherwise failed, as expected it's cursed to stay at sea forever like the Dutchman.

 

[Ralph Johnstone]

OK, I'll have to confess - I don't know what "that little something extra" is???

It can only be the original Bailey's Irish Cream :

And none of their latest lemony, strawberry, mint flavoured horse-.

Was once almost thrown off a boat by the hosts for adding Bailey's to my Moroccan Mint Green Tea. What's so wrong with that ?

 

[Richard19068]

Was once almost thrown off a boat by the hosts for adding Bailey's to my Moroccan Mint Green Tea. What's so wrong with that ?

At Two Harbors on Catalina island they had a drink called Ballast Point Tea. Mint tea, Baileys and peppermint schnapps. Sounds terrible but it was a delicious alternative to a shore boat coffee.

 

[BigEasy]

Coleman stove top percolator is my go to coffee pot on board. French Market coffee & chicory works for me….dark & strong!