A GREAT cup of coffee!

[Camper6]

Yes, to some extent, Camper. My Keurig offers three water levels to choose from, 6, 8 or 10 oz. So I guess by choosing 6, maybe I could make it stronger. But then I'd only get 6 ounces of coffee, which is not enough. So I'd have to run it twice, using an additional pod. Which would double the cost. Might be worth trying as an experiment, anyway.

Run it again without changing the pod. There should be enough left there to give it a boost.

 

[Camper6]

I have a very old book about old west prospectors. This reporter went to visit one in the mountains to interview him and said that he had the very best cup of coffee ever. He asked the prospector and he told him the secret was cold mountain water. Hell, how do you get that in my city? Anyone that camps in mountains please comment! Of course, when in mountains my appetite is great, too, so it could be related. I only drink two cups of black with level teaspoon of sugar and don't have a favorite brand.

I'm going to try spring water, the kind you buy in bottles. If it works I will buy the big refillable container.
Best coffee I had in a long time was at a friends cottage.
He had one of those percolators that sit on the stove.
I went out and bought one and got the same coffee.
At home it didn't turn out as good.
Then I thought about it. He buys his water and it comes from a spring.
I sold the percolator.

 

[Catlady]

I'm going to try spring water, the kind you buy in bottles. If it works I will buy the big refillable container.
Best coffee I had in a long time was at a friends cottage.
He had one of those percolators that sit on the stove.
I went out and bought one and got the same coffee.
At home it didn't turn out as good.
Then I thought about it. He buys his water and it comes from a spring.
I sold the percolator.

Yesterday I did an experiment. I filled a cup with bottled water and put it in the ref to get cold, then I made a cup of coffee (I have a one-cup drip coffee maker). I honestly didn't see a difference. I DO like perked coffee better, but hate to do all that washing. With the drip one all I do is wash the permanent filter. I think anything and everything tastes better in the clean mountain air, that's probably why that reporter liked the old prospector's coffee.

 

[treeguy64]

Get a gold-tone, flat bottom, screen funnel, a box of Melitta natural filters, some great Ethiopian coffee beans. Grind some beans, put a heaping tablespoon of ground beans in the filter that's sitting in the funnel, pour one cup of filtered water (that's been microwaved for 90 seconds in a pyrex measuring cup), into the funnel that's sitting on your favorite coffee mug/cup. You can truly do no better! If you're into large quantities of coffee, just adjust everything, and use a glass coffee pot instead of a mug/cup.

 

[Camper6]

Yesterday I did an experiment. I filled a cup with bottled water and put it in the ref to get cold, then I made a cup of coffee (I have a one-cup drip coffee maker). I honestly didn't see a difference. I DO like perked coffee better, but hate to do all that washing. With the drip one all I do is wash the permanent filter. I think anything and everything tastes better in the clean mountain air, that's probably why that reporter liked the old prospector's coffee.

You are right of course. Everything tastes better outdoors in the fresh air. The atmosphere you don't get in restaurants or at home.
Of course it depends on the area and what the tap water contains.
I don't think you could make a decent cup of coffee with water from the tap in Flint.