How to Make the Best Backcountry Coffee | Multiple Methods!

Pour through a bandana for a ground free cup of cowboy coffee

I"m loving all these coffee comments! Keep em brewin!

There is no topic more controversial than the best way to make trail coffee. Yet you still didn't touch on my preferred method. I tried every method of trail coffee out there and my simple cheap way is still my favorite. And for the record, those Starbucks via's suck. I ordered empty tea bags off Amazon and filled them with a pre-measured amount of my favorite coffee. You make the coffee just like you're making a cup of tea. Simple, cheap.

I also use the GSI at home and the office. I also stick a paper filter inside the GSI filter, easy cleanup and it slows down the drip giving a stronger coffee with fewer grounds.

On the instant coffee. Try adding the crystals to a splash of cold water to dehydrate. The boiling water can actually burn the delicate freeze dried crystals.

Cowboy coffee is a great way to make a lot of coffee for a group (or the proper caffeine addicts among us). Most other methods are either too inefficient or too bulky in their equipment demands. A viable alternative is to make cowboy coffee and then filter it through your GSI pour overfilter into someones cup. I find the tapping doesnt do much to settle the grinds, but small (inch or two) controlled drops onto a flat surface really helps. Just make sure to put a lid on the pot.

Your videos are always fun and educational! Great subject for all of us hiking and backpacking coffee lovers!

For cowboy coffee, you could directly put the grounds into the cup and pour over hot water ; let it sit for a few minutes after stirring to let the grounds fall down. That's also how we do regular coffee in Poland :)

I have the GSI Coffee grinder and I hull in my whole “Black Rife, Beyond Black” beans, with a Collapsible stainless pour over also from BRCC

We've been struggling - and you saved us!! To enjoy the coffee while backpacking is so important. We have tried different ways but nothing nearly as good as the Aero press. Tnx a million for showing us that option!

😂 I had a good chuckle with the cowboy coffee options. Thanks for making it fun.... 😊

Instant from Cafe Bustello is how I like to roll! No fuss, no muss, decent enough coffee and cheaper than Starbucks Via!

I love my GSI Java Drip but here's a tip. If you didn't use enough coffee and it looks pale or weak, don't add more coffee. Just unhook the filter from the sides of your mug and immerse it into the coffee and stir it around gently for 5-10 seconds. Let it steep for another 30 seconds or so and then carefully pull the filter back out. As long as you weren't heavy handed with the stirring, you won't get any grounds in your cup of coffee. I also like the fact that the GSI fits in the bottom of the butane canister so it stays protected and out of the way inside the backpack

Great video! Lots of good options...I use the more traditional cowboy coffee pot for my cowboy coffee... let it sit 3 minutes and add a 1/2 cup of cold water through the spout and pour you self a cuppa. Yumm and not so many grounds in the teeth

Straight in the booking pot, that's how we Israeli travelers do it with Turkish coffee. The trick is to poor it gently to little outdoors espresso cups.

Love your videos! And I love coffee even more!

The GSI mini Expresso maker is worth looking at if you like great coffee.

Not sure why this works, but try not stirring your cowboy coffee. Just boil it to desired strength, take it off the heat and in a minute or two most of the grounds will sink to the bottom. Enjoy your videos- learning a lot!

Ok, you convinced me to get this aeropress lol. I got the java kit for my jetboil but I wondered what the aeropress was like. Apparently I'm a coffee snob and having good camp coffee is my top priority lol

Cowboy coffee is good but you usually make it in a big pot for a big group and gravity drop the grounds which takes a little practice. I just bought an aero press for backpacking so it was nice to see it in the review.