I like Cafe Bustelo instant. Better than Nescafe or whatever, cheaper than Starbucks via or Waka. The thing about making real coffee on trail, it's not just the small weight of the brew basket thing, but also the weight of the coffee itself. Freeze-dried FTW!

Cowboy coffee is the best and easiest. Pretty simple. Boil and shock. Pour into cup and no grains if you do it right.

Bless you and all my fellow coffee addicted brethren! May we be joined together on the eternal trail!!!

That’s a neat little gizmo for sure. I often backpack for many days and clean-up is a factor for me. I use a cheap metal enamel cowboy cup like you might get at Walmart. I boil my water right in my cup and add the instant coffee to it. Being a metal cup you will need those cheap brown gloves many of us carry on the trail to hold it. Also on cold mornings it’s your hand warmer. My coffee isn’t the best but not the worst either. I use either those little instant packets that Folgers sells most of the time. Very little trash and easy storage. Sometimes I have the Folger single coffee bags, ok but now more trash to get rid of. After a few days in the woods that little straw of Folger instant crytals taste pretty good! Ha Ha! Another thing with me I like a bit of milk in my coffee. So I have powdered milk with me for my cereal and always make enough to add to my coffee. I’m 73, and still hiking. Years ago as a Boy Scout lad I used powdered milk. In those days it was pretty horrible. Nowadays it’s pretty good!!! Light and easy to carry too. I keep one of those little yogurt cups in my pack to mix it with. Most of those are exactly 1 cup too so there’s your measuring cup for other stuff. Really enjoy your channel. Keep up the gear testing.

I'm a cold brew drinker, but I don't feel like dealing with it on the trail (especially because I like lots of cream and sugar)....So my routine is hot Carnation chocolate instant breakfast drink so that I have a hot beverage, and then I eat a handful of chocolate covered espresso beans for the caffeine.

I'm liking that Brew Buddy idea. Right now I use Folgers coffee singles. Like the DIY teabags, but purpose made & sealed. If you find they aren't strong enough, you can just let them steep a while longer.

Never seen this item. Perfect, and easy to carry👍🏼 thank you!!

Thank you for this video! Best one yet for us coffee drinkers. ☕️

Thank you. Must get this brew buddy. My own "lightweigt" setup was using random funnel with paper filters to make pourover coffe.

Just found your page, and I really appreciate your reviews. Especially, your Southeastern take.

Thank you! I am on my 3rd coffee making device and each has had their issues. The brew buddy is exactly what I was wishing for - filter style, collapsible, and lightweight. Just ordered a 2 pack on Amazon for $10 delivered. Sweet!!

Great Video! Thank you for sharing with us. Can't wait to see more content 👍

That Brew Buddy is awesome!! Thank yiu

I use the Collapsible X-Brew Coffee Dripper by Sea to Summit. Been using it almost everyday for a year now. Works great.

Bought the Primula based on your review. Best and easiest coffee I ever had on trail. Simple, light, fits in my Toaks 1100ml pot along with a bunch of other stuff. Sure, the coarse filter gives the coffee a little texture (not grounds, but not liquid either) but man is it good. Thanks for solving my coffee routine for me!

I bought a Stanley French Press, I use it for both tea and coffee plus I forgot a spoon once and it strained the soup so I could use a fork to eat the noodles and rice.

Hi - love your videos - this is the third in a row and made me laugh so much because I too love my coffee in the morning. I recently had 7 days backpacking in the wilderness of Tasmania and I took Lavazza Instant Prontissimo! espresso (new product here in Australia) with me - it was good enough to look forward to every morning! Saving on space and weight were priority - and minimising waste material to pack out - so the instant coffee was perfect solution.

You can find a French press plunger that works with the Stanley two cup cookset.

Good video the 2nd item reminds me of the gsi java drip. Personally i use the coffee rocket and so far i love it

Love it mate. Been doing the cowboy coffees but might try upping my game.

great vidio men keep it up!. i just use the plunger from a GSI Outdoors Personal Java Press in my TOAKS 750ml Pot so it lite and a one pot solution.

Loved your Video as I SO love a rich cup of coffee ... or two, in the morning well on trail! I have the MSR insulated mug like you have so I use the MSR coffee mug mate. It is a micro screen and sits right on the top of the MSR Mug. It is really similar to the net style but smaller. Try it! Makes a great cup of coffee.

I already own a GSI Java drip, older model. Love it and use it at home. Just bought a GSI Coffee Rocket drip device. Seems well made and durable. I will be testing it out tomorrow before I depend on it for camping.

I've been using these little pour over thingies that attach over your cup. They are really cheap and almost no weight. I do use the little creamer cups and keep them in a zip lock bag with the rest of the coffee stuff. Haven't popped one yet! Its a little more work than I would like but very light and very cheap!!

you can get a metal reusable filter for aeropress too which is awesome.

Turkish/Bosnian style coffee for the win for me. You need to like it strong though. A little goes a long way.

I’ve never seen one of those!!! We have a plastic French Press that we carried into the mountains with us. Haha. But this little gadget would be perfect.

If you already have a Jet boil or MSR windburner the presses you can get for them work well and are very lightweight and take up no additional room as they both store with the cook stove systems

I take my favorite coffee and put it in a blender/food processor and grind it to dust. Then I make the little tea bag looking coffee thingys. Makes a good, strong cup of coffee.

Vietnamese instant coffee is great but be prepared for sweet strong coffee. Also dirt cheap if you buy from asian store

Check out the GSI Outdoors Ultralight Java Drip as an alternative to the Brew Buddy same concept but only 0.32 oz

Black Rifle Coffee offers an attachment for the bottom with a metal screen that does away with the paper filter. $40. A little expensive but it is my go to on the trail cause it makes such a good cup!

@GearTestTV

3 жыл бұрын

Good to know! I've been hearing people rave about Black Rifle, but haven't had a chance to try them yet.

Snow peak French press is great. You can store the coffee and other stuff in there and it’s light. Down side is the price.

Nice selection, have you ever tried this "Stanley Classic Vacuum Travel Press Mug "

Nice to see the options. Only negative I can see for brew buddy is clean up. Also these setup will require two containers. One to boil water then to pour into another container. Possibly the aero press would fix this problem since you use inverted method. Nevertheless it has me thinking of adding another item to try out

The best way for light weight coffee making is just by boiling it. Fill your cooking pot to the desired water level. pour loose grounds to completely cover the water in a layer of floating grounds. Turn on stove or place over heat until boiling. Boil for one to two minutes to desired strength. The boiling helps to percolate the coffee grounds throughout the water. Immediately remove from Heat and set you're cooking pot on the ground. Poor no more than half an ounce of cold water into the center of your cooking pot with the coffee in it from about hip height. Allow coffee to cool a little bit and all your grounds will be settled at the bottom. Slowly pour your delicious coffee into your drinking tool of choice until you get to the bottom and you start seeing grounds coming out of your cooking pot. Discard the rest of whatever is in your cooking pot and enjoy your nice cup of coffee.

@KR-bn4bg

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite part about it is I don't need to carry any extra wait to have good coffee. It tends to not be bitter. And clean up is relatively easy because all I have to do is knock loose grounds out of my pot, then wipe up any remaining grounds.

@abc-wv4in

3 жыл бұрын

I've always heard this called Cowboy Coffee. I tried it at home one time and it does make very good coffee!

Regarding the aeropress, they have metal disc that replace the paper filters (less waste) Spot on review none the less.

That applies to me with a caveat. It has got to be GOOD coffee. Instant won't suffice. Neither will the robusta-bean-doped trash that is sold under brand names in American supermarkets (tastes like it was brewed from floor sweepings). For that matter, there are some arabica beans that aren't all that great. But all of the really good coffees that I've drank were brewed from single-origin arabica beans. My favorite right now is Ethiopian Sidamo Guji in a light roast. I began brewing a pot of it right before I noticed this video, and it's ready now.

There are metal filters available for the AeroPress that eliminate the need to worry about carrying the paper filters. I still wouldn't bring it backpacking lol.

Brew buddy for the wow. I would like to know the quality of brew vs percolating. Because right now the percolator is king for taste. Even over the Ninjaaaaaa @ home.

Have you tried the GSI ultralight Java drip? Packs smaller. Works good enough that I use it at home and in the office.

@pkudelka

4 жыл бұрын

Noticed that it makes a bit of a watery coffee though...

If you love the coffee flavor and the caffeine, but are concerned about the extra weight, I HIGHLY recommend Grinds Coffee Pouches. Disclaimer: they look live chewing tobacco pouches... but they are filled with only coffee grounds (means you don't have to spit constantly either). I always bring a tin when I go backpacking!

I make cowboy coffee or i just use instant

Thanks for the vid. How do you store your coffee?

@GearTestTV

3 жыл бұрын

While backpacking I just keep the coffee in a ziplock bag.

Ever try cowboy coffee? Don't need any additional gear and makes a strong cup.

I can’t believe that more people don’t move to Turkish coffee. Just boil the coffee and drink. You can use the grounds in the bottom of the cup to tell your fortune as an added benefit.

@abark

3 жыл бұрын

Beside the fact that Turkish coffee is about the worst possible brewing method, it also requires a very fine grind.

You are using a GSI insulated mug. That is 1/3 of the GSI Personal Java Press. Why you did not include that makes little sense to me.

No need to make coffee bags, Robert Timms have sold them for many years.

make the video shorter u have a good quality setup for good vids

@GearTestTV

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! I always try to make sure that I give all of the information in a video that I would want to know if I were watching the video. That makes my videos longer, but I always provide timestamps in the video description for anyone that would like to skip certain sections.

@abc-wv4in

3 жыл бұрын

@@GearTestTV I like details more than I like brevity. Don't make them shorter!