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Date: 14 Jun 2006 12:55:36
From: Jason Castonguay
Subject: Travel solution
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I'm interested in hearing anyone's ideas regarding a coffee making
solution while traveling. This would be for both grinding and brewing
if possible. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Jason
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Date: 14 Jun 2006 16:08:57
From: Rich Adams
Subject: Re: Travel solution
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> I'm interested in hearing anyone's ideas regarding a coffee making
> solution while traveling. This would be for both grinding and brewing
> if possible. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
On my road trips with a passenger:
Land Cruiser.
2000 watt power inverter.
2 commercial grade UPS batteries.
Anfim grinder.
Bodum mini-eSantos. (the funnel is forgiving if dropped)
Fresh roasted beans.
Water from home.
~or~
Mini-van rental.
Butane single burner stove with pot.
Zassenhaus (soon to be replaced by a larger Trosser)
Melitta #6 pour over filter cone.
Nissan stainless press (minus the press part, used for the receptacle)
Fresh roasted beans.
Water from home.
Depending on the mode of travel, length and location of stay, etc, there are
quite a few ways to continue enjoying excellent coffee.
Respectfully,
Rich Adams
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Date: 14 Jun 2006 07:37:08
From: Randy G.
Subject: Re: Travel solution
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Jason Castonguay <jcast@snet.net > wrote:
>I'm interested in hearing anyone's ideas regarding a coffee making
>solution while traveling. This would be for both grinding and brewing
>if possible. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
Like Robert and Ken said, plus...
Plus, it depends on how long you are going to be gone, what type of
coffee you like, and for how many people, and how many cups per day?
Brewing
Easiest: Pour over single cone
Richest and easy: Aeropress
Grinder
Smallest: Whirley blade
Best for Size: Hand grinder (Zass)
Randy "There's always Kaluah" G.
http://www.EspressoMyEspresso.com
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Date: 14 Jun 2006 14:05:26
From: Robert Harmon
Subject: Re: Travel solution
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Howdy bub,
I won't carry beans & grinder when I travel; just too inconvenient. Instead
I grind enough for the trip plus a bit extra & vacuum seal it in individual
packets. For brewing I have a collapsing pour-over cone for Melitta #4
filters that we made out of some .020 T7074 aluminum sheet we had just
laying about.
Hotels almost always have a coffee or tea pot so getting hot water is no
problem. Nothing like a great cup of coffee after one's morning shower, is
there?
But I've had problems getting it through airport security; the doofus' seem
to 'think' [word used in the figurative sense not literal] anything they
can't identify must be a WMD. ;)
Robert (hedonist to the core) Harmon
"Jason Castonguay" <jcast@snet.net > wrote in message
news:cHTjg.114704$dW3.7449@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> I'm interested in hearing anyone's ideas regarding a coffee making
> solution while traveling. This would be for both grinding and brewing
> if possible. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> --
> Jason
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Date: 14 Jun 2006 07:50:12
From: Ken Fox
Subject: Re: Travel solution
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"Jason Castonguay" <jcast@snet.net > wrote in message
news:cHTjg.114704$dW3.7449@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> I'm interested in hearing anyone's ideas regarding a coffee making
> solution while traveling. This would be for both grinding and brewing
> if possible. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> --
> Jason
The biggest problem is a supply of fresh coffee along the way. If your
travels won't extend beyond 10 days or maybe 2 weeks you can simply bring
very fresh whole beans along with you, or if you are travelling in places
where good quality freshly roasted coffee is easily available, then no
worries either.
Unfortunately, most places don't have readily available high quality fresh
whole bean coffee for sale, so for longer trips this is the
often-irreconcilable problem.
As to equipment, you will need a small grinder, preferably a burr grinder
but a whirlyblade properly used is still going to produce better coffee than
pre-ground. A small electric water kettle and either a one cup melita cone
and filters or a small presspot will complete the travel coffeemaking kit.
Personally speaking I will take a kit like this on road trips but not on
airplanes. Generally I have too much other stuff to take on the plane to
spare the room for this stuff, although if one was going on short duration
air trips this would not be too difficult.
Most of time I'm going on longer trips without access to fresh coffee and in
that case I just "suspend taste" and drink the local plonk, just enough for
caffeine's medicinal value.
ken
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Date: 14 Jun 2006 20:07:44
From: Steve Ackman
Subject: Re: Travel solution
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In <cHTjg.114704$dW3.7449@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com >, on Wed, 14 Jun
2006 12:55:36 GMT, Jason Castonguay wrote:
> I'm interested in hearing anyone's ideas regarding a coffee making
> solution while traveling.
"Travelling" is fairly vague. Car, bus, plane,
train, RV, bicycle?
> This would be for both grinding and brewing
> if possible. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
On our recent trip we used Bodum Antigua grinder
and Melitta Clarity coffee maker. We put about a lb.
and a half of beans in the freezer and scooped out of
the other lb. in a drawer.
The time we wanted coffee with no AC available, I
just plugged the grinder into the computer UPS, heated
water on the gas stove, and used the Clarity as a
pourover.
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Date: 14 Jun 2006 19:28:49
From: Brewer Bob
Subject: Re: Travel solution
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Jason Castonguay wrote:
> I'm interested in hearing anyone's ideas regarding a coffee making
> solution while traveling. This would be for both grinding and brewing
> if possible. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
I usually bring my beans, whirlyblade grinder and some small no. 2 or
3(I forget which now) and use the little coffee maker in the hotel
after I've cleaned it well.
Brewer Bob
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Date: 15 Jun 2006 08:12:22
From: koose
Subject: Re: Travel solution
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KBuzbee wrote:
> Our travel rig is simple and seems both robust and portable. A Zass, an
> Aeropress, a hot pot, coffee beans and Aquafina. There is no glass.
> Mostly plastic (wood and metal in the Zass)
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I would add a robust ceramic mug to the above. I use the "pepper mill"
style Zass. The AeroPress really was the last and final piece to
complete the travel package.
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Date: 15 Jun 2006 04:53:03
From: KBuzbee
Subject: Re: Travel solution
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Our travel rig is simple and seems both robust and portable. A Zass, an
Aeropress, a hot pot, coffee beans and Aquafina. There is no glass.
Mostly plastic (wood and metal in the Zass)
We're rarely gone more than 10 days so the coffee is still okay as long
as it was just roasted.
We take the hot pot as 1. We know where it's been. and 2. Most places
we stay have hot water but not all.
The Aeropress has so much variability in the coffee produced. My wife's
and mine are almost unrelated in nature but both produced by the same
equipment... Nice.
Aside from the water, it all fits in a small box. We tend to travel by
car which is always full of Aquafina anyway.....
We've been trying various things for years with limited sucess. The
Aeropress was the final piece to our travel conundrum...
Ken
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Date: 15 Jun 2006 10:11:39
From: KBuzbee
Subject: Re: Travel solution
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Mea Culpa, yes, of course... But, for me, not one of my favorite mugs.
Things happen on the road ;-)
Ken
koose wrote:
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> I would add a robust ceramic mug to the above.
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