Thread: Bush Coffee Solutions

Originally Posted by akaroa1

Yeh Jeds are fine for light weight trips

Jetboil plunger, GSI grinder and roasted beans for heavy weight trips

I learned to roast green coffee beans from being in the bush with work and play many years ago.
Green coffee beans last for years
Roasted coffee beans quality declines a few weeks after roasting.
So I roasted my own in the bush

Now I buy a blend of green beans 10 kg at a time and roast about weekly at home for my espresso machine.

I just buy a kilo of roasted beans every 7-8 weeks or so. Automatic one button machine, once its set for the beans away laughing. As good as a decent barista job at a cafe, at home. No, I don't have a problem damnit. But, for the cost of the machine ($100 second hand) vs the cost of buying decent coffee - it's probably saved me a few thou. Now for the shoot me moment, I cannot for the life of me or my tastebuds tell the difference between the $20 1Kg purple bag of blended beans from the Warehouse and the two $50 options of flash custom roasted blends I was getting previously. To be fair, I was just nodding and agreeing with those though too!

It is a bit of a suck it up moment working away from home though, one gets used to the standard... Even the capsule dispensers are crap next to the proper machine (and brutally expensive).

What I have found is Kmart does a small grinder for not much $$ and I can grind up some beans to the plunger coarse level and use those, I can't stretch the milk when away but a poke with a frother and the plunger and it's as close to expresso machine texture and flavour as you can get sans machine. For everything else, I resort to Avalanche-brand no sugar flavoured sachet's - they don't seem to have whatever the Nescafe and other brands have in them that gives you the horrendous aftertaste (I'm assuming it's something in there to create the artificial crema froth on the top). The Avalanche ones seem to my taste anyway be the closest to a 'normal' flat white or a 'cappuccino' as I can find.