Brew kit - what do YOU use?

[Johnnyboy1971]

I have a friend who's wife works at Nestle and I get it from time to time for free but my preference is the condensed milk in a squeeze tube. As well as whitening it also sweetens it perfectly for my taste.

I also add a squeeze to my porridge too.

 

[dewi]

I take a container of instant coffee, piles of teabags (all different flavours), a tupperware container full of sugar and a couple of pints of milk with me when I go camping usually.

However, I do have a huge container of Tim Horton's ground coffee, so I'm playing around with a few ideas on how to brew it in the woods... not keen on 'cowboy coffee'... don't mind a few bits in my brew, but a layer of mud at the bottom just puts me off.

My lad is a whole other ball game though, he has coffees, teas and hot chocolate drinks that he takes with him... one of his favourite bits of being out in the woods is making a hot drink or boiling up some noodles.

 

[MikeLA]

evaporated milk lovely when outdoors

 

[Ferret75]

Well you've just changed my life there to be honest

My God, since when Tony, that's great...!
Whatever next... Ready sliced loaves of bread?! Bread with garlic butter??!

Squeezy milk... It's the future!!!

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[Ferret75]

My wife has bought some of the squeezy condensed milk, brilliant idea Tony thanks!

Does anyone know if 'Camp Coffee' still exists as my old neighbour used to rave about it?

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[Bishop]

'Camp Coffee' is alive and well, though something of an acquired taste.

 

[Buck]

My wife has bought some of the squeezy condensed milk, brilliant idea Tony thanks!

Does anyone know if 'Camp Coffee' still exists as my old neighbour used to rave about it?

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Yes it is. It is made from chicory and should not be classed as a coffee in my opinion.

 

[Ferret75]

The story goes that he spread it on bread or toasted bread to take to work, not just make hot drinks with it. Never tried it so can't comment, but at least I can find some. Chicory has a few handy medicinal properties I believe?


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[4freek]

I use milk powder, not coffee mate type stuff, that stuff is horrid!

Have to have real ground coffee though, none of that instant type,

I make bush coffee Mors Kochanski stye
https://youtu.be/QX91Nj0uItI

 

[John Fenna]

In the woods I mainly drink ground coffee - and put up with the weight penalty of my filter kit (two part plastic filter with gold plated final filter membrane) which fits inside my billy. I play around with different coffies and enjoy most of them ... but it has to be strong. I also like Acorn "coffee" which I make myself and treat the same as any ground coffee.
The coffee is carried in poly bags inside my "own make" Saami coffee pouches, as is the sugar.
I often take tea and chocolate as well - but these are Rat pack stuff mainly, as is the milk powder.

 

[Andy BB]

Call yourselves bushcrafters! Coffee from coffee beans? Shame on you!

You need to gather acorns, shell them, dry out the kernels, grind it all up, put into fine muslin cloth then hang into a fast running stream for a day or so to leach out the excess tannin. Then prepare as per coffee.

Alternatively you could just put a pair of old socks into boiling water - probably tastes better than the acorns

 

[John Fenna]

Call yourselves bushcrafters! Coffee from coffee beans? Shame on you!

You need to gather acorns, shell them, dry out the kernels, grind it all up, put into fine muslin cloth then hang into a fast running stream for a day or so to leach out the excess tannin. Then prepare as per coffee.

Alternatively you could just put a pair of old socks into boiling water - probably tastes better than the acorns

But still no caffeine!

 

[Goatboy]

On no please no Camp coffee. Even the smell is awfull. Almost as bad as that powdered "coffee" hell that folks used to try and give you in the 70's - Mellow Birds.
Still see Camp coffee in the shops but thankfully Mellow Birds seems to have gone the way of the dodo.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[Ferret75]

On no please no Camp coffee. Even the smell is awfull. Almost as bad as that powdered "coffee" hell that folks used to try and give you in the 70's - Mellow Birds.
Still see Camp coffee in the shops but thankfully Mellow Birds seems to have gone the way of the dodo.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

Ok I'll take your warning well on-board! When I finally got around to searching for it online it appears it was made in Scotland in the mid 1800's as the very first 'instant coffee'. Although, from what people are saying here, I take the subtle hint that calling it 'coffee' may have overstepping the mark a tad!!!

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[decorum]

.. but thankfully Mellow Birds seems to have gone the way of the dodo.

Nah, homeopathic coffee is still (unfortunately) alive and kicking

 

[Ferret75]

Lmao! One part coffee to 25,000,000,000,000,000 parts water, (add chlorine to improve taste as desired)..

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[SCOMAN]

On no please no Camp coffee. Even the smell is awfull. Almost as bad as that powdered "coffee" hell that folks used to try and give you in the 70's - Mellow Birds.
Still see Camp coffee in the shops but thankfully Mellow Birds seems to have gone the way of the dodo.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

I remember exchanging victuals with the Pitcairn Islanders during a visit. We got papaya, bananas, pineapple and lemons. They got Mellow birds (no one on board would touch the stuff), tea bags, tea leaves, and some other bits and pieces. I don't know if they'd invite us back.

 

[Goatboy]

Wow, I'm surprised that they didn't use you in some island ritual of death for that exchange. Remember being at a cousins birthday party and her birthday cake was a chocolate & coffee one made with camp coffee. I like coffee to drink, but don't like coffee sweets or cake. It was even worse due to the Camp coffee. Being a well brought up loon I was taught to eat what was put in front of me and not complain. Had to force every morsel down. 'Orrible.
Decorum, it's really still made? I thought that Mellow Birds like Nimble bread had been left in the decade that taste forgot.
Still to this day if I get invited to a new house for a visit I'll take tea if offered 'till I know what coffee they drink as I feel black tea is harder to muck up than coffee.
Also when I lived in Seven Oaks I just stopped drinking tea & coffee 'cause the water was so awful that it ruined the best of them.

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[decorum]

... Decorum, it's really still made? I thought that Mellow Birds like Nimble bread had been left in the decade that taste forgot.

It is ~ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mellow-Birds-100-Pack/product-reviews/B004Q449F8 (first sales link I found, not used as a recommendation to purchase ...)

You can still get Nimble as well.

 

[tiger stacker]

Likes camp coffee...