life’s milestones. And you want to find a gift to mark the occasion.
If the person for whom you are gift shopping is a coffee drinker, your quest just became much less difficult. There is a wide selection of coffee-lover-friendly gifts; a few suggestions may provide inspiration.
If you are shopping for someone who brings home supermarket coffee, not in jars, but which they have selected and ground from the bins of whole roasted beans, why not consider a home coffee grinder? They come in blade–the less expensive–and burr styles, and range in price from around $20 to close to $200. If your friend is really into exotic, high-end coffee blends, a burr grinder, with its selection of settings, would be the better choice.
The coffee wand is the latest in a long line of coffee ”gadgets”, designed to make coffee accessible anywhere at any time. It is a clear glass straw, attached at one end to a cube containing a miniature “French press” filter. The coffee drinker simply adds freshly ground coffee to hot water, brews it and doctors it to taste, and sips through the straw, which filters the grounds from the brew.
If your coffee drinker is on the road much, think about a coffee mug which can be plugged into the car’s cigarette lighter, so the coffee stays hot during the trip.
Or, seeing another rendition of the cigarette-lighter-hot-coffee connection, you may decide on a one-or-two-cup coffee maker, complete with washable filter, which will let the driver bring along a favorite blend of freshly ground coffee, for brewing at leisure. No more settling for fast-food, gas station, or truck stop coffee.
And there are, of course, hundreds, or even thousands of on-line coffee vendors who will provide ideas on both coffee making equipment and the coffee itself. If you want a coffee–related gift, but can’t make up your mind, a gift certificate is always perfect.
The recipient will be like a Java junkie in a coffee store.
