There's nothing like rolling out of a tent at dawn, brewing a fresh cup with hand-ground beans while the lake fog lifts. After years of testing manual coffee grinders on backcountry trips across the Pacific Northwest, the Sierras, and desert canyon camps, our team has strong opinions about which hand grinder deserves a spot in […]

I learned this the hard way on a backpacking trip in the Sierras: pre-ground coffee in a ziplock bag tastes like cardboard after day two. By day four, I was begging a fellow hiker to share his hand grinder beans. That single taste of fresh-ground coffee at 9,000 feet ruined me for instant forever. I […]