21 Best Gifts for Coffee Lovers (2025): Drips, Pours, and Shots

Podium is the coffee subscription I would gift to the true bean aficionado in my life, the one who thinks of coffee as a blend of equal parts agriculture and process and magical thinking — the one who knows what co-fermentation is, who wants to know whether the beans are washed or process natural, geisha or bourbon, sidama or guji. You almost can’t pick out people like that unless you’re one of them. Let Podium do the selection for you: Podium only ships one bag per month. All the coffees that have won the most prestigious awards in coffee. All are light roast, aromatic and delicate, made for drip or pour-over or the most delicious espresso.

If your nerd friend loves balanced coffee and is all they talk about, get the Gold Membership. If they talk about the fruit and the funk and how “crazy” this new coffee tastes? Get platinum. Your friend, partner, or weird brother-in-law will thank you. Everything I’ve gotten from Platinum has been special in some way or the other.

Another great multi-roaster subscription: Note that some of the best multi-roaster coffee subscriptions, like Trade Coffee, may offer a wide range of subscription options and roasters – and will let your friend choose for themselves. I like my gifts to be in the form of a wonderful little surprise box, à la Podium, but if you want your idiot friend to have a say in the matter, send them a trade subscription instead. ,Matthew Korfage