Gifting Season

The Best Gifts for Coffee Lovers

Mugs, makers, Mokapots, and more for the coffee connoisseurs in your life
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Coffee connoisseurs, enthusiasts, and drinkers alike will all appreciate the path of least resistance—and most pleasure—while brewing. But looking for the best gifts for coffee lovers in your life might be overwhelming. Espresso machine or old-school drip coffee maker? And on the topic of drip, Chemex or Hario? The options are as limitless as the variations to your coffee order.

Read on for all of the best gift ideas from the coffee universe. I’ve rounded up everything from eye-catching mugs to the most high-tech gadgets, the best and freshest beans, and all the other accessories your lucky gift recipient needs to brew really good coffee.

The Best Espresso Machine Gifts

Breville Bambino Plus Espresso Machine

If you’re not quite sure if your friend or family member is a coffee snob or a complete beginner, consider the Breville Bambino Plus. This espresso machine is ideal for most levels of coffee knowledge. Serious pros might prefer a barista-level machine, but everyone else will love this easy-to-use, multi-functional espresso maker. It has a compact footprint to preserve precious countertop space, and with a little practice, your loved one will be pulling smooth, robust shots in no time.

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Breville BES500BSS Bambino Plus Espresso Machine

Diletta Mio Espresso Machine

The Italian-manufactured Diletto Mio, made in collaboration with the coffee-heads over at Seattle Coffee Gear, is a step up in both required skill level and resulting espresso—making it ideal for someone with a little coffee know-how. But don't fret: While the slick Mio looks fairly advanced, this machine doesn’t have the price point, skill requirement, or even counter space footprint of most high-end machines. By not including a hot water dispenser and thoughtfully adding a water tank that can be slipped out sideways, this 10.75” x 17” x 15” espresso machine will fit under low cupboards and on small countertops. I found that after a minimal amount of tinkering with grind size and tamp pressure, I was well on my way to perfect morning cappuccinos.

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Diletta Mio Espresso Machine

The Best Gift Ideas for Coffee on the Go

Kinto Tumbler

Tokyo-based Kinto is known for its thoughtfully made, high-quality kitchenware, and this travel mug is no exception. Never fear a leaky lid or a too-hot-to-handle bottle again with this stainless steel, vacuum insulated bottle. It holds 17 ounces (more than enough room for a large Monday morning latte!), and it comes in six shades. A great coffee gift for that friend who is trying to break their plastic Starbucks cup habit.

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Kinto Travel Tumbler

Miir Coffee Canister

This compact coffee canister from Miir is ideal for the outdoors person in your life. It packs 12 ounces of coffee—plenty for a week’s worth of morning coffee while backpacking. It’s airtight and made of stainless steel with a BPA-free silicone gasket.

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Miir, Airtight Coffee Canister

The Best Coffee Grinder Gifts

Baratza Encore Conical Burr Coffee Grinder

Once coffee beans are ground, the oils in them start to dissipate. For the freshest cup, grind the beans at home using a conical burr coffee grinder, which carefully and precisely slices beans to your exact specifications. This Baratza is a favorite of coffee professionals and connoisseurs for its uniform grind size and high-quality construction. Yes, it’s pricey, but these machines last for decades, and the repair process—should you ever even need it—is notoriously smooth.

Encore Conical Burr Coffee Grinder

Timemore Manual Coffee Grinder

Some coffee drinkers might prefer going the old-school route and use a hand grinder. If so, the Timemore Manual Grinder is the perfect gift for them. It’s easy to use, powerful, and produces an incredibly even grind size for a manual device. Plus, it’s small enough to fit in a to-go kit alongside an AeroPress (more on that later) and a few servings of coffee grounds.

Timemore Chestnut C2 Manual Coffee Grinder

The Best Coffee Subscription Gifts

Trade Coffee Subscription

While plenty of independent coffee roasters have subscription services now, Trade Coffee makes for an excellent gift because of the variety it provides. Gift a Trade coffee subscription, and your loved one will be able to choose from hundreds of bags of beans, all from small roasters across the U.S. The site has a handy quiz that will guide coffee aficionados and newbies alike through finding the best beans for their preferred brew method—whether that be a coffee maker, an espresso machine, a French press, a Hario pour-over, or more. Trade accounts for it.

Your loved one will also be able to input information like preferred flavor profile and even coffee additions, like milk or sugar, before being led to a handful of goldilocks single origins and blends. Each bag is roasted fresh to order, and the company partners with roasters dedicated to fair trade purchasing practices.

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Trade Gift Coffee Subscription, 3 Bags

Driftaway x Raaka Coffee and Chocolate Tasting

Driftaway Coffee is my first suggestion for anyone who is really curious about how different locations, growing, drying, and roasting methods are at play in a coffee's flavor profile. Their coffee subscription begins with a blind tasting of five bags of beans, which you can do with the thoughtful tutelage of a coffee expert on Zoom or on your own time (with included notes as guide). Driftaway’s limited edition chocolate and coffee tasting includes all that, plus three bars of premium, ethical chocolate bars to taste with an accompanying three additional bags of beans. You can also throw in a ticket for a Zoom tutorial, led by Driftaway and Raaka experts.

Driftaway x Raaka Coffee and Chocolate Tasting

Counter Culture Coffee Subscription

A Counter Culture coffee subscription, or even a stand alone bag, is ideal for the well-versed coffee drinker in your life. These roasters subscribe to the “any coffee, any brew” idea, which makes Counter Culture ideal for gifting. Send a bag or two of whichever coffee bean you prefer and regardless of which coffee maker your lucky giftee uses, they’ll be all set. Each bag ships whole beans, so these beans make an excellent accompaniment to the hand grinder above.

Counter Culture Coffee Subscription

The Best Coffee Maker Gifts

Moccamaster Technivorm KBT

The Technivorm Moccamaster is the ideal drip coffee machine. Since 1968 this iconic machine has been beloved by coffee lovers for its showerhead design, which sprays all of the coffee grounds evenly. The carafe retains heat well, and it is incredibly durable. The interface is simple and a breeze to operate—even pre-caffeine. While the Moccamaster is bit of a splurge, it comes with a five-year warranty, and it is known for its high-quality design.

Technivorm Moccamaster 79112 KBT Coffee Brewer

Chemex 8-Cup

The Chemex is a deceptively simple way to an excellent pour-over. Just add a Chemex filter to the elegantly-shaped coffee maker glass, add your hot water (ideally from a gooseneck kettle, though other regular and electric kettles work too), and you’re well on your way to a smooth, robust cup. The Chemex filters make all the difference. Made from bonded paper, they remove excess sediment and oils in the brewing process, which in turn whisks away any hint of bitterness in your (or your loved one’s) cup of coffee.

Chemex Pour-Over Glass Coffeemaker - Classic Series - 8-Cup - Exclusive Packaging

Reusable Coffee Filter

Reaching for a filter in the morning only to find an empty box is devastating–and that’s before you tally up how many paper filters a coffee drinker goes through in a lifetime. This thoughtful stocking stuffer fixes all that: It's petite enough to fit into almost all drippers, including the popular Hario V60 model.

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Able Brewing Able Kone Mini Reusable Hario V60 Filter

Clerk Pour Over Stand

A Hario pour-over coffee maker is yet another beloved, simple, and reliable method—the ease of which makes it a great gift. This one, complete with a Hario V60 cone, was created specifically for Bloomist. The sleek stand itself is brass, while the coffee cone is glass—an easy pairing for patinated kitchen hardware that looks excellent on the countertop.

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Clerk Pour Over Stand

Bialetti Mokapot

Stovetop espresso: A steam-powdered strong, short brew that’s not quite espresso but takes no expensive electronics to make. To make it, the Bialetti Mokapot’s octagonal canister uses a unique reverse brewing method, in which steam is pushed up through the bottom compartment through the ground coffee, leaving you with a flavorful and powerful cup of coffee in the top compartment. Despite its humble engineering—not to mention the under $25 price point of a mini—coffee enthusiasts often love the ease and nostalgia of a Bialetti.

Bialetti Express Moka Pot, 1-Cup, Aluminum Silver

Alessi Mokapot

A mokapot upgrade for the modernist kitchen. This Alessi stovetop espresso pot, designed by Michele de Lucchi, makes six cups of gloriously rich and strong coffee.

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Alessi Pulcina Stove Top Coffee Maker

The Best Cold Brew Coffee Gifts

Takeya Cold Brew Maker

It might be cold outside now, but come June, your loved one could be whipping out their cold brew maker for some delight iced coffee. If the supremely strong, robust flavor of cold brew coffee brings tears of joy to their eyes, the Takeya Deluxe Cold Brew Coffee Maker is the gadget for them. This one makes a particularly powerful cup of cold brew, and it is easy to use.

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Takeya Patented Deluxe Cold Brew Coffee Maker

The Best AeroPress Gifts

An AeroPress and a Fellow Coffee AeroPress Attachment

An AeroPress is about as close as you can get to an espresso at home without a counter space-stealing espresso machine. Plus, it’s portable. Take the tiny set up with you to the office, in your carryon, or to the weekend rental. Adding the Fellow Coffee attachment takes that already excellent gift and makes it a little more thoughtful. The tiny screw on pressure-actuated valve builds up more pressure to mimic the action of pulling a shot. Plus, the thin, etched, stainless steel attachment is reusable, so no more hunting around for paper filters.

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AeroPress Coffee and Espresso Maker

Fellow Prismo Attachment for AeroPress Coffee Maker

The Best Coffee Mugs, Pitchers, and Creamers to Gift

Serax Espresso Cups

Four pristine, perfect espresso cups for your beloved coffee-loving minimalist. These dishwasher and microwave-safe Serax cups were designed in collaboration with Dutch designer Marcel Wolternick and keep true to his style of simple, graceful lines.

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Serax White Inku Coffee Cup Set

Dansk Kobenstyle Mugs

No best-gifts-for-coffee-lovers list on Clever would be complete without the right accessories, and a few of these Kobenstyle enamel coffee mugs makes for a playful gift set. Danish kitchenware line Dansk might be known for their iconic enamel pots, but the mugs, inspired by those very same pots, might just steal your heart too.

Dansk Kobenstyle Porcelain Mugs

Nagai Mug

There’s something comforting about wrapping your hand around a sturdy mug handle. This one takes that idea and supersizes it, with a playful, puffy handle that nearly doubles the cup’s width. Each 16-oz mug comes in five colors and is handmade in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Utility Objects Nagai Mug

Yowie Gozer Mug

This petite coffee mug brings some joy to the kitchen with its pale yellow paint job. At just 3.5 inches high, it's the ideal size for a cappuccino or latte.

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People Via Plants Gozer Mug

HMM X Spring Pool Glass

Recycled glass from Taiwan’s largest recycling center, Spring Pool, was used to create this amber glass mug. The faceted shape is designed to mimic the 12 hours of a clock, symbolizing a life cycle–or in this case, a life cycle and then a recycle.

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HMM Project W Glass

Splatterware Pitcher

Oat milk has never looked as good. Give this pretty little splatterware milk pitcher alongside a milk frother as a gift, and the coffee drinker in your life will never need to rely on their local coffee shop for lattes again. Each one is handcrafted in the Pugliese region of Italy and has slight variations.

Black on Terra-cotta Splatterware Pitchers

Stelton Dusty Green Vacuum Jug

This Erik Magnusson-designed coffee pitcher has been a favorite of coffee lovers for 40 years and counting. It’s vacuum sealed and keeps beverages hot or cold for hours—ideal for a lazy and well-caffeinated long Saturday morning brunch. Given that it holds a whole liter of coffee, this is the perfect gift for anyone with a drip coffee maker (and a household full of coffee drinkers).

Stelton EM77 Vacuum Jug

The Best Milk Frother to Gift

Nespresso Aeroccino4 Milk Frother

If the coffee lover in your life has fastidiously been frothing away with a handheld wand, awe them with an Aeroccino milk frother. The half-cup capacity Aeroccino makes supremely silky hot or cold foam (and of course, heats your milk to the ideal temperature as well). The base holds an extra foaming attachment too, so, for once, that tiny piece won’t get lost in the back of the cutlery drawer.

Nespresso Aeroccino4 Milk Frother