Coffee (yes I mean hunting related coffee)

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Looks like those Stanley thermos bottles are more popular than I thought. Here's that smaller, easier to tote one with the pushbutton drinking lid. It's at its finest in the cold weather of deer season but I even use it during May turkey season and sometimes when I'm not even hunting. Figured the Stanleys ought to get a thumbs up recommendation. IMG_8966.JPG
 
Fine Figure of a Man said:
The only thing worse than no coffee in the morning is instant coffee in the morning.
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I agree, and I'll add that those coffee bags (like tea bags) come awfully close to duplicating the taste of instant coffee with added hassle.
My wife and I tried those things when we were into some serious backpacking. We gave them up after a trip or two, and just went out and bought ourselves a small, aluminum percolator. Once we got it broke in, it made great coffee (still does) and it doubled as a covered pot for boiling water to rehydrate some of our backpacking cuisine anyway.
After a good meal, there's not much better than a fresh cup of coffee and a pipe full of fine tobacco (lit with a pine bough pulled from the campfire) when it's getting dark and you're 20 miles from the nearest road.;)
 
.308 Norma said:
I agree, and I'll add that those coffee bags (like tea bags) come awfully close to duplicating the taste of instant coffee with added hassle.
My wife and I tried those things when we were into some serious backpacking. We gave them up after a trip or two, and just went out and bought ourselves a small, aluminum percolator. Once we got it broke in, it made great coffee (still does) and it doubled as a covered pot for boiling water to rehydrate some of our backpacking cuisine anyway.
After a good meal, there's not much better than a fresh cup of coffee and a pipe full of fine tobacco (lit with a pine bough pulled from the campfire) when it's getting dark and you're 20 miles from the nearest road.;)
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right. “Tobacco” ;)
 
Kingcreek said:
at the end of a deer hunt
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I drink coffee during the hunt. I've put my cup down when deer walked out on more than one occassion.
We hunt in box stands mostly, so I take the Thermos with me. Some think the smell bothers them, but I've never noticed it. I kill as many deer as most of the guys in camp, and I drink coffee every morning. Heck, I've been known to light my pipe in the deerstand.

And at work, I drink coffee until lunch.

.308 Norma said:
After a good meal, there's not much better than a fresh cup of coffee and a pipe full of fine tobacco (lit with a pine bough pulled from the campfire) when it's getting dark and you're 20 miles from the nearest road.
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Good to see another pipe smoker on the forum. Not many of us left.
 
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I’ve done Turkish and Greek boil, French press, instant, pretty much any way you can name I’ve tried it. I’ve pretty much settled on pour over as the easiest, best and most practical for a portable coffee fix.
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Kingcreek, in using the pour-over method, you are doing the right thing in terms of quality of a wonderful beverage. I also do ONLY pour-overs for my coffee enjoyment, but have not combined it with hunting at all yet. I make coffee because I like the taste of it, NOT for the caffeine blast. (I know, I am unusual in that sense. Most like and want the buzz; I would rather not have it. But I do not drink decaf because its flavor is so poor.)

Doing a pour-over will make you probably the best cup of coffee you can have. It will be as good as you can get in the finest coffee shops, and better than you can get in most others. Stick with pour-over. On a 0 to 10 ranking scale, I would rank the pour-over method a 10; French press a 9.2; Bunn drip coffee maker a 7; percolator a 6; Starbucks (a.k.a. Charbucks) a 5; almost all other drip coffee makers a 3.5; and instant a 2. The reason I included the Bunn is because it brews with almost the correct temperature of water (95F to 105F).

With the smell of your coffee wafting through the woods during a hunt, you might attract more hunters than game! Enjoy!
 
This has been a very interesting conversation. I don't really have anything to add. I might keep some of the suggestions in mind though while camping.

I found a coffee can full of trimmed and primed .223 brass a couple of days ago. I vaguely remember doing the work a couple years ago. I must not have rinsed out the can before I repurposed it. All the brass smelled like coffee. I ran it through my Dillon last night. Almost 500 rounds worth.
 
I've been drinking coffee for so long I can't even remember when it started. My folks used a GE 9 cup percolator when I was growing up and today I still use a GE 9 cup percolator. There's just something good about hearing the rumbling sound as it makes good coffee, and it's especially good when the temperature is 20 degrees outside and I am getting ready for a hunt or in the evening when I am warm again and looking for something comfortable. I would rank it among the ten best things in life.
 
As a fellow hard core coffe fan I've found very few thermos bottles that keep it really hot in those near zero temps but I keep looking. As an aside, Folgers makes a pretty good low acid coffee for those of us who have reached the acid reflux stage. Takes a little getting used to but your stomach will thank you.
 
I pre heat my thermos with very hot water, if does seem to keep not longer. Same if using cold stuff.

I'm a on/off coffee drinker, I really like coffee but some days don't care for it or my stomach. My aunt have us a 12 cut percolator I use, for some reason growing up I thought they made had coffee. It must have been them mr coffee tv commercials. The percolator seems to get most of the acid out.

My favorite way is cowboy coffee, it's the best tasting to me.
 
Dinosaur1 said:
As a fellow hard core coffe fan I've found very few thermos bottles that keep it really hot in those near zero temps but I keep looking. As an aside, Folgers makes a pretty good low acid coffee for those of us who have reached the acid reflux stage. Takes a little getting used to but your stomach will thank you.
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A tablespoon of honey in your coffee helps with the acid.
Stanley keeps the coffee hot all day in the type of weather deer season brings in the Ozarks.
Michigan deer season have it a run for it's money.
 
The reason I included the Bunn is because it brews with almost the correct temperature of water (95F to 105F).
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Oops. I couldn't edit my post above, so I'll correct it here. The correct temperature to brew coffee is 195 F to 205 F.
I was only off by 100 degrees, don't I get partial credit? :)
 
Louca said:
Oops. I couldn't edit my post above, so I'll correct it here. The correct temperature to brew coffee is 195 F to 205 F.
I was only off by 100 degrees, don't I get partial credit? :)
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Nope. Close only counts in Horseshoes and hand grenades. No Cigar for you!!!
 
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