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Post by TrailElder on Jan 1, 2021 6:11:55 GMT -8
chocolate covered coffee beans. Chewable and delicious, seems like they could become a backpacking staple. Yes, under certain conditions, except for the melting issue! Chocolate is just problematic that way.
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Post by rebeccad on Jan 1, 2021 8:43:25 GMT -8
I have definitely had that chocolate espresso-bean patty more than once. I really want to be able to keep them in the car for a boost when I’m driving, but that is always problematic. I guess one could just munch the beans without the chocolate?
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Post by texasbb on Jan 1, 2021 9:39:28 GMT -8
As for the effects of coffee in general, besides the need to pee, I sometimes think they are all about mitigating the effects of withdrawal: helps headaches (withdrawal symptom), ditto general malaise. I am pretty sure I’d do just as well with a cup of tea in the a.m., once I get past the withdrawal. But dammit, I LIKE coffee! I LOVE coffee, but for any hiking trip longer than an overnighter I wean myself off it a few days before the trip. That spares me the time required for morning coffee, the extra weight for fuel, the headaches and malaise of doing withdrawal in real time, and the dehydrated feeling coffee gives me if I exert myself too soon after drinking it. And it lets me look forward to that first Americano on the drive home.
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Post by rebeccad on Jan 1, 2021 10:34:34 GMT -8
texasbb, I think I’m also addicted simply to the feel of a hot drink in the morning, so I’d be boiling that water no matter what—for tea, if not coffee, and the tea bags are probably more of a hassle than the coffee! Only on lightning desert overnights do I skip the hot drink—and on those, I’ve carried a can of iced coffee (Carrying all the water anyway, so might as well).
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Post by texasbb on Jan 1, 2021 11:24:10 GMT -8
texasbb , I think I’m also addicted simply to the feel of a hot drink in the morning, ... Yeah, a good hot cup is sure nice in the morning. I'm actually more inclined to crave the hot drink in the evening, right after supper, but the nature of my addiction is that if I'm drinking one cup a day, I'm drinking three, so teetotaling for the duration of a hike works better for me. I guess we all nurse our addiction our own way.
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Post by mk on Jan 13, 2021 14:44:46 GMT -8
But dammit, I LIKE coffee! yep I go to bed looking forward to my first cup of coffee in the morning while I read, check the weather, again - yep The withdrawal headache is real, but fortunately I only need one cup in the morning to avoid that. zeke, there are caffeinated energy chews and drinks (and Gu-like things) that I would think would be somewhere in between espresso beans and a cup of coffee. All the boost without the coffee, maybe. I'm with rebeccad here - a hot cup of something in the morning is the way to start the day. And I love coffee. I look forward to my first cup off the trail because it isn't instant!
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Post by rebeccad on Feb 11, 2021 14:09:56 GMT -8
Trader Joe’s is now carrying instant “cold brew” coffee, meant to be mixed hot or cold. In the interests of science I got a jar, and consider it perfectly good as instant goes, and it does dissolve nicely in cold water, which gives it potential for those no-stove hikes. I just need to find chocolate that also mixes well cold, because I kind of like my iced coffee to be ice mocha
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Post by zeke on Feb 11, 2021 14:23:32 GMT -8
need to find chocolate that also mixes well cold, because I kind of like my iced coffee to be ice mocha Why not an ice cream syrup? Wouldn't that thin down in the water?
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Post by rebeccad on Feb 11, 2021 15:03:17 GMT -8
need to find chocolate that also mixes well cold, because I kind of like my iced coffee to be ice mocha Why not an ice cream syrup? Wouldn't that thin down in the water? It would, but might not backpack so well.
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Post by zeke on Feb 11, 2021 15:15:00 GMT -8
It's on the shelf in the store. I'd say seal it up in a straw and test it out.
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Post by rebeccad on Feb 12, 2021 8:16:10 GMT -8
It's on the shelf in the store. I'd say seal it up in a straw and test it out. Hell no, not that crap they sell in stores. It would have to be my home-made chocolate sauce :D
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Post by thetroutwhisperer on Apr 23, 2021 6:17:51 GMT -8
What about powdered half n half....gotta have a bit of coffee with my cream in th morning...is there any good powdered real half n half out there?
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Apr 23, 2021 8:50:45 GMT -8
Milkman brand powdered milk has long been a staple.
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Post by rebeccad on Apr 23, 2021 18:03:31 GMT -8
What about powdered half n half....gotta have a bit of coffee with my cream in th morning...is there any good powdered real half n half out there? I don’t know about half and half, but NIDO is powdered whole milk, and has a very rich and creamy texture in my coffee.
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Post by tomqvaxy on May 1, 2021 9:47:22 GMT -8
one could just munch the beans without the chocolate? in my adolescent years, i would break away from my parents' gaze and head for the coffee grinding machine at the local A&P. there were always a few "8 O'clock" bokar beans i could snatch up and chew just to make the shopping with Mom & Dad ordeal palatable.
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