My new favorite coffee brewing method is also the worst for road-trips

A road-trip is a great way to figure out what you want to do when you get home. It's been almost 7 weeks on the road camping out of my Jeep. Since the Jeep TJ is such a small vehicle to fit all the gear two people need for 8 weeks on the road, a lot of thought went into what we need to bring - and what we don't. One of the things I had to have was a coffee brewing method. I had been making coffee with a pour-over set for many months. My set included the basics for making a perfect cup of coffee: a chemex, paper filters, a kettle, a food scale, and a grinder. A week or so before leaving, I purchased a Phin filter set from Nguyen Coffee Supply. It included everything you need to brew coffee the Vietnamese way - including Vietnamese coffee. It's an extremely simple method of brewing a great cup of coffee, and it doesn't even require precise measurements like a pour-over set does. It doesn't require paper filters, either, which means less waste. Vietnamese coffee is...