Making Coffee

How does everyone make their coffee on the trail? I'd like to take as few additional items as possible, or if anyone knows how to make some good cowboy coffee. I've been experitmenting and have yet to really find the right taste. Any particular types of coffee that are better suited to backcountry brewing? Thanks guy,

Maxwell coffee makes the little tea bag deals and I like them. They are light weight and brewing them in hot water is the easy way. For my cowboy coffee,I just bring my water to boil with the grounds in it and when done,I just add a bit of cold water or pepper to make the grounds go to the bottom.

cheap plastic funnel with a fine screen in it placed on top of container, put coffee into the funnel, run boiling water through it, you end up with hot/fresh coffee in the container below the funnel. Grounds can be kept in a ziplock bag and used a few times before they become "rather pathetic" for making coffee.

Rigging some sort of support for the funnel (sticks, rocks, whatever is handy) makes this process far less painful (boiling water is hot) and less tedious as well.

I 2nd the coffee bags.

Lightweight, tastes pretty darn good and when your done with 'em, just pull of the string & tag and bury the used bag.

It's good fertilizer.

Depends. For short trails & car camping, I like to actually brew it in a perculator (sp?). Uses a lot of fuel and slow as Christmas, but, umm umm good! For longer trails were fuel/weight are an issue, I have a GSI french press that is great. I combine it with the Maxwell House bag coffee, and cleanup is a breeze. If I'm really tight on space, then I just use the bags in a cup and let it simmer like tea.

Take spoon, spoon out about 1 tsp of "good" instant coffee, add about 10 oz of boiling water and stir. Simple, light and adequate to my humble purposes; no grounds to carry or dispose of. It's not gourmet coffee but then, hey, I'm basically an unwashed savage.