Coffee Brewing Hot -

Pour over drip. Drip coffee makers and Percolaters

• Use cold filtered water or spring water.

• Measure your coffee- use 2 tablespoons of ground coffee for every 6 ounces of water (usually one cup on your brewer)

• Water temperature needs to be between 195 degrees – 205 degrees. If you boil water let it sit for 30 seconds (water boils at 212 degrees which is a little too hot to brew coffee)

• Rinse your filter with hot water before brewing. Use a good quality oxygen bleached filter.

• Pour just enough water over the grounds (wet not saturated) to let them bloom (they get puffy). After 30-45 seconds continue the pour over. This will get the most flavor from your coffee.

• Drink your freshly brewed coffee within 30 minutes of brewing. Don’t let coffee sit in a brewer all day long. Make it as you need it.

• If you prefer your coffee weaker, it will taste better if you make it full strength, then dilute it with hot water or milk.

If you coffee comes out tasteless, check your water temperature. It happened to me once when my hot water kettle had the heating element go out on it.

Cowboy Camp Fire Coffee

• Grind: Drip or Coarse

• Pour 1 cup of Tessa's Organic Coffee and8-10 cups of cold water in a enameled coffee pot. Place over the fire or grill until the coffee comes to a boil. When the coffee comes to a boil remove from heat and add one cup of cold water to settle the grounds.

  Boiling point: High Altitiudes 10-20 minutes, Lower Altitiudes 5-10 minutes.

• One really good tip that I learned along the way is to rub dish soap the outside of the coffee pot before you put it over an open fire. When it is time for clean up all of the carbon will simply wash off. This also works with other cooking pots. I am an advocate of a clean camp and fresh brewed coffee.
• There are some tales of cattlemen adding egg shells to the coffee, or never disposing of the grounds, just adding coffee to each new batch until one only had mud and some such nonsense. In all of my camp cooking years I have never found these techniques to be helpful to settle the ground or to add to the flavor of the coffee. I rinse the pot clean with fresh water between brews and never reheat a cold brew for consumption.
• One really good tip that I learned along the way is to rub dish soap the outside of the coffee pot before you put it over an open fire. When it is time for clean up all of the carbon will simply wash off. This also works with other cooking pots. I am an advocate of a clean camp and fresh brewed coffee.

Cowboy Camp Coffee Drip or Melita

• Use cold filtered water (if you don’t like drinking your home water, don’t make coffee with it)

• Measure your coffee- use 2 tablespoons of drip ground coffee for every 6 ounces of water (usually one cup on your brewer)

• Water temperature needs to be between 195 degrees –  205 degrees. If you boil water let it sit for 30 seconds before using it (water boils at 212 degrees which is a little too hot to brew coffee)

• Rinse your filter with hot water before brewing. Use a good quality oxygen bleached filter.

• Pour just enough water over the grounds (wet not saturated) to let them bloom (they get puffy). After 30-45 seconds continue the pour over. This will get the most flavor from your coffee.

• Drink your freshly brewed coffee within 30 minutes of brewing. Fill your thrermos to hold the heat.

Espresso

• Grind: Powder Fine

• Use cold filtered water (if you don’t like drinking your home water, don’t make coffee with it

• Follow Espresso Machine Instructions

• One can brew espresso with any bean or roast of coffee. We offer an espresso roast, a medium dark roast, but it is possible to choose another bean for example Sumatran Gayo Mountain in the medium dark roast ,a low acid coffee.

Coffee Brewing Cold - Toddy Style

• Use cold filtered water (if you don’t like drinking your home water, don’t make coffee with it)

• Measure your coffee- use 2 cups of ground coffee

• Place plug into toddy from the bottom ( so you can get it out to drain) Place wool filter in tub with the middle dipping down. Then fill the tub 1/2 full of water, let the filter get wet and the air bubbles out from the filter area.

• Pour your coffee in, mix with a spatula, or your hand gentlly until the coffee is we. Then fill gently with water until the tub is nearly full. I set the tub in a container in the case that the plug was not in right. Leave overnight or for at lease 8 hours at room temperature.

• Drain the tub into the glass caraffe. Refrigerate.

• 1 or 2 jiggers of coffee per cup mixed with boiling water, meaure the coffee for your taste.

Iced Coffee. pour concentrate over ice cubes, or over cold milk.

Make Organic Coffee Concentrate ice cubes to drop into your favorite liquou

The Toddy Cold Water Process System has several benefits.

It is less acidic and you don't have to brew coffee every day.

Acid in coffee is in the oil.

A cold water process does not heat the oil, when brewing so the oil/acid stays with the grounds and does not go in to the concentrate.

I have always thought that the caffeine caused the jitters, but I am told that this is not the case, it is from rancid oil in (old) beans.