Coffee-shop crawl with you
Pick three independent cafés in town and spend a morning tasting your way through them together.
For coffee people, freshness and ritual matter most. Gifts that improve the morning cup (better beans, a grinder, a frother) are used daily and remembered.
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For most home brewers, a burr grinder or a subscription of freshly roasted beans makes the biggest difference to taste.
An experience (a barista or latte-art class, a café crawl together) or a beans subscription from roasters they have not tried.
Yes, it keeps arriving after the occasion. Choose whole beans or ground based on whether they own a grinder.