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Worst coffee I've ever had was some I made myself. We were logging on the southern Oregon coast mountain range. It was wet, muddy and steep. To save money we camped out near the job. While still dark one morning I got up and figured out that in the haste to get cold beer in town last night I'd forgotten the coffee filters. It was cold, raining and the next 9 hours logging was going to really suck. I wasn't going to start without coffee. I figured out that my liner socks looked pretty close to a coffee filter. We always wore white socks under the wool ones to keep blisters down. When I use the term white, that's how they looked in the store, a long time ago. I got in the duffel and found a pair that looked clean, filled the half the sock with coffee and had my partner stretch the top wide open while I carefully poured the boiling water between his hands. This was high speed coffee! It took about 6 seconds to fill the tin pot and it was colored dark. I have no idea the smell of dirty socks could transmit so well into a cup of coffee. My buddy spit his out. It was going to be a long day, I finished mine.
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