16 Awesome Gifts For Coffee Lovers – Holiday Gift Guide

Does your significant other or best friend love drink good coffee? If so then here are some excellent gifts for coffee lovers!

These coffee lover gift ideas are for those people that are interested in great tasting coffee but don’t have all the equipment they need to get started.

The best part about loving to drink good coffee or even consider brewing coffee as a hobby is it doesn’t take a lot of money. Not like golf, skiing, woodworking or such other hobbies.

If your Christmas or birthday shopping list has some gifts for coffee lovers on it, here are some ideas that will cover the brewing basics.

So let’s get started with the gift ideas!

What better gift for a coffee lover than a coffee subscription where they receive coffee beans from some of the best coffee roasters in the country!

Its a gift that keeps on giving every month! I receive coffee from this service every month and It’s like Christmas 12 times a year!

Mistobox is one of the best coffee bean services; they feature coffee from roasters all around the country. The subscriber can tweak his subscription to his tastes and even make menu selections. If you use this link or click the button below and enter YH0Y at checkout, you will receive $10 off!

How can you beat that!

Grinding coffee beans just before brewing is without a doubt the first thing you want to do to improve the taste of your coffee.

There are three ways to grind your coffee, a hand burr grinder, electric blade grinder, and electric burr grinder. Blade grinders give you coffee grounds of all different sizes, and if you pulse it too much, the coffee is too fine to use. Leave the blade grinder for spices.

Hand grinders are a lot of work, but if you’re only making one or two cups they work great. The advantage is you can buy a good hand grinder much less expensive than you can buy a good electric grinder.

So let’s take a look at a couple of hand grinders.

This is the hand burr grinder I use. I will be coming out with a review of it soon.

It holds about 30-grams of coffee, and that is enough for about half a liter of coffee. The grind settings are easy to change, and it does a great job of consistently grinding up beans to a medium to a medium-coarse size.

Once you go past the medium setting, the space between the spindle and the burrs is too large, and there is some size inconsistency. Don’t fear; there’s an inexpensive electric grinder that works well on coarse grinds (see below), and for those times you want to brew a lot of coffee in an auto-drip maker.

I totally recommend the Porlex JP-30. Don’t get the smaller mini version; it doesn’t hold enough coffee beans to make it worth the while in my opinion.

For a hand grinder that will process more coffee and look good on your counter go with this Peugeot grinder from France.

I use this Cuisinart grinder when I make a full pot of coffee with the auto drip coffee maker, or when I coarse grind coffee beans for a French Press. It works well for the coarser grinds, and okay for medium grinds, but finer than that, and it powders the coffee.

It works for well enough that I haven’t upgraded yet. But I will soon (see below).

I will upgrade to this Baratza grinder soon. It is labeled as the go-to entry level grinder. It has a ton of settings, and although pricey it won’t break the bank.

Can’t wait to get one and do a review on it!