21 Best Gifts for Coffee Lovers (2025): Drippers, Pour-overs, and Shots

Podium is the coffee subscription I’d give as a gift to the nerd in my life, the one who thinks of coffee as an equal mix of cultivation, process, and magical thinking — the one who knows what co-fermentation is, who wants to know whether beans are washed or naturally processed, geisha or bourbon, Sidama or Goji. Unless you are one of them, you will almost never be able to choose for such people. Let Podium choose for you: Podium sends out only one bag per month. All coffees that have won some of the most prestigious awards in the coffee industry. They are all light roast, aromatic and delicate, made for drip, pour-over or the most intelligent of espressos.

If your nerd friend loves balanced coffee and this is what he’s talking about, get the Gold subscription. So they talk about fruit and funk and how “crazy” this new coffee tastes? Get Platinum. Your friend, partner, or weird brother-in-law will thank you. Everything I got from Platinum was special in one way or another.

Another great multi-toaster subscription: Note that some of the best multi-roast coffee subscriptions, e.g Coffee trademay offer a wide range of subscriptions, options, and toasters, and will allow your friend to choose for themselves. I like my gifts to be a little cool surprise box, Podium style, but if you want to give your geeky friend some input on that, send him a business subscription instead. —Matthew Corvage