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Good evening party people, welcome to the cafe! As some of you may know, I’m a coffee educator for a coffee roaster called Unincorporated Coffee Roasters. As someone who has been drinking and enjoying coffee all of his life, I must say that mountain coffee just hits way the fuck harder than cafe coffee. No feeling can compare to waking up and brewing a cup of coffee or tea while deep in a canyon surrounded by nature and good friends.

Please share your coffee or tea pics, location, what you’re brewing and how your brewing it!

I’ll go first.

Buckhorn Campground
STC Pro Cezve copper plated
Three Idiots Blend by UCR Colby Canyon Parking Lot next to the bridge with Dima and Sean
STC Pro Cezve
Maria Sequiera Anaerobic Caturra

Here's the setup:



The orange bike and the red bag and the green monster are so much younger and non-faded-looking! I'm with Ryan, and usually don't really do the full thing anymore. So much weight and stuff! Real nice though. The full report for those interested: viewtopic.php?t=7945

Damn son, that coffee setup has been everywhere! Tried and true

Just climbed at tunnel crag for the first time ever with the one and only, Kevin Mockracik! I made him coffee after the climb and I used the cezve with quiet prophet mixed with brown sugar and cardamom!

That is excellent.

Here's an action shot:



and where it ended up



I would tell you all about the coffee, but I have no idea! The circumstances made it great! viewtopic.php?t=8005

Arright boys, I have two new things I wanna get: a very simple coffee making apparatus for extended bike trips, and a simple coffee maker that doesn’t use electricity or anything for day to day life.

For the bike one, I want something very light that takes up very little space and makes a solid good cup of coffee. I don’t mind if it is technique-dependant, meaning you gotta get good with it. For the home one, maybe a French press or the Italian Moka Pot. Would like to be able to make 2 cups or more with it. No electricity, gotta survive the Tupacalypse with it sorta thing.

Wadayasay?

Get what I have and get one made of aluminum or titanium for compactness! You’ll be able to easily get 4oz out of a small one and it will be little liquid with a perfect strong caffeine punch, good for biking. Super easy to clean too and beats the mocha pot in terms of compactness. Also all you need is ground coffee. For my setup, I have my coffee in a bag mixed with a blend of coffee, cardamom, and brown sugar

I brewed up some unincorporated coffee that Matthew gave me in my french press in tuolomne meadows campground this weekend. It was GOOD
Sorry, it was not back country and I do not have pics, but it was pretty rad to drink good coffee at high elevation surrounding by granite domes and trees

Just brewed that same coffee I gave you wes but on the San Olene water tank with Dima and Taco.

Ureña Rojas Family
Cezve

Taco wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 9:10 am Arright boys, I have two new things I wanna get: a very simple coffee making apparatus for extended bike trips, ... I want something very light that takes up very little space and makes a solid good cup of coffee.

Wadayasay?

I don't drink coffee myself (LOVE the smell, hate the taste), but I've taken friends so many places so many times and having good coffee for them can often make a better day for me.

Some years ago I took an Aeropress and machined it down to super light (and shorter) for backpacking. My recollection is that I made two of them while I was at the lath/mill. I think they/it are in storage at my other place in TN. I'll be there in a couple weeks. I'll see if I can find one. If I do, you're welcome to it if you like Aeropress coffee. If it works for you great, if not no worries - pass it on. Try it and see if you like it. Since I've retired and moved to the country, I don't find nearly as many victims for my backcountry adventures so my girl (also not a coffee drinker) haven't used them in years.

JB

That would be outstanding! I am interested to see what changes you made to it as well.

Didn't take Coffee Receptacle(TM) pics but really into Al Ameed Instant lately on accident. Been taking it to desert events and I'm a big fan of the convenience and cardamom blast.

Pic for tax (and so I can use messages), @ Tunnel 1:

Welcome! "Gortexgandalf" is an outstanding username choice dude!

I used to bring our Unincorporated Coffee Roasters instant coffee to backpacking trips and boy has instant coffee come a long way! We tested our main espresso blend out with 3 different companies and found that "swift coffee" had the closest product to a shot of our espresso than the rest. I still consider bringing instant coffee on trips but the cezve beats it out due to presentation, swag, and flavor complexity.

Gandalf,

SAAAAWWWWW DEEEEWWWWW

Armenian coffee on the Cezve at Browns Flat

My strategy is to bring dima with, since he tends to wake up first and has a sweet coffee making setup. I'm borderline convinced to bring the full setup now while backpacking, but I admit I just use the instant packets for those endeavors.

Dima comes with freshly ground coffee while I come with pre ground coffee mixed with sugar and cardamom

I'm writing this at the Specialty Coffee Association convention in San Diego right now. Just purchased a new Cezve from STC, the same company as my standard camping cezve. This one I got is probably 100g in weight but I will weigh it at some point today! Stoke is high af

Wait, what's a "camping" cezve?

dima wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2026 12:58 pm Wait, what's a "camping" cezve?

One I can use especially for camping. Something ideally lightweight which this one def is

Anytime Matt or Dima make a breakthrough in their backcountry coffee techniques means really good news for people like me and wesweswes