COFFEE COFFEE! COFFEE!!!

it also great for the next morning after to many drinks and you need to get your brain kicked started and do not ask why the pink gator was rideing in back of the hummer that day..

 

Great Barter Item

Neither my wife nor I are big coffee drinkers. It does appear that having some coffee available for barter may be smart.

 

Coffee? For Barter? No Way! They can have my coffee after I'm out of bullets, bricks, sticks and the knife is busted off at the hilt. At that point the should probably grab the manual coffee grinder too. I won't be needing it any more.

LOL

But it will probably be gone before they get here. Watch out for that caffeine headache. Makes me cranky ! prolly don't want to show up on that day to visit.
Just sayin'

 

I've got to agree with you on this one, brokor.
Try the adaptor filter to use your own coffee, it does a heck of a job producing consistent, quick coffee.

 

Good info.

I have been rejecting the idea of these machines because I have developed an addiction to Blue Mountain Coffee from Jamaica and had been unable to locate it in the little packets (I order it in 5lb packs direct from the roaster there).

I'll have to track down the adaptors, get one and try it on a friend's machine...

Thanx

 

I have a friend from Jamaica that brings me Blue Mountain beans whenever he goes home to visit his folks. dat real coffee, its da ting

 

I thought about getting a Keurig for a while, but here they're too pricey for us and even though I've cut back on my coffee and am no longer downing 2 pots a day, the servings seem to small to me. One of these years might try it though. I do have my own coffee plant, and plenty of dandelions to try making my own blends, especially if I can get some chicory growing here as well.

 

We've been using a Keurig for at least a year, and Black Tiger is my favorite.

 

We have a more basic version of the Keurig. I really like the Earl Grey tea. Our machine has just 2 cup size buttons. I generally make a large cup and then use the same k-cup to make a small cup. A little weak if I drink it alone but perfect if I run them into the same large mug.

Drinking a cup as I type this. I sweeten with Organic Blue Agave-Wholesome Sweeteners

If you've never had it, find some. You won't be sorry. Manufacturer recommended shelf life of 2 years. Makes the most amazing sun tea too.

Byte

 

Dandelion roots, when roasted and ground/powdered are a coffee subsitute. Chicory is also used as a coffee substitue. I ordered the coffee plant from Gurney's 2 or 3 years ago(along with a dwarf fig and dwarf banana). Stays in my room where it gets plenty of sunlight and doesn't get below 60degrees, maybe 55 on occassion(Farenheit).

 

My family loves Cafe Du Monde's chicory coffee. New Orleans just isn't the same with out coffee and beingnets at Cafe Du Monde.

Byte

 

theres a native holly grows in north america that ive been looking into
it carries a lot of caffiene, and i mean a lot
the natives used to make a coffee from it that they used to make them barf
(something to do with religious ceremonies) part of its name is "vomitus"
it should grow in most of the USA so we could grow our own coffee
and i noticed no one added acorns as a coffee substitute
roasted acorns were a big coffee sub in the Appalachians

 

as far as making coffee, i prefer the old spatterware pot on the edge of my fire or the back of the woodstove
aint no better brew

 

oops, had the name wrong
its "Ilex vomitoria"
you can google it, thats how i found it

 

Costa Rican coffee is excellent. Mountain grown is always the best.

 

Interesting enough, I was reading some George Washington Sears (free NookBook- Woodcraft) recently and he described the way we commonly make coffee as being of Brazilian orient. Percolation, that is. He describes watching the process in Brazil for the first time. It was very interesting. The common American way at the time was what we would probably refer to as "Cowboy Coffee".

For those interested:
BARNES & NOBLE | Woodcraft by George Washington Sears | NOOK Book, Paperback

Anyone else ever have trouble going into Starbucks and ordering a black coffee? It's like your speaking french. I much prefer McDs or Dunkin Ds. There, they know what a black coffee is. 99% of the time, the taste is consistent too.

 

I'll stick with good old "Community Dark roast". That is the toll for any of my friends that come up here. If they don't bring Community coffee, they stay in a motel.