Anniversary gift: 20 years - inspire me!

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It is our 20th anniversary in a couple of months. We've got a lovely night away booked (hopefully, covid-permitting etc), but I'd like to get dh a gift too.

He loves good beer (bit of a home brewers); balancing based sports (surfing, skateboarding etc), outdoors kit, but is otherwise a fairly unassuming chap - quite classic in his tastes/not super flashy. I feel like over the last 29 years that we've been together, I'm bought him most things so am struggling somewhat with ideas. He always like cufflinks and I've not bought those for ages, but it feels like something a bit more exciting is called for. He also turns 50 this year so I've got to pull two ideas out of the bag somehow

Budget probably a few hundred (we're not massive spenders on gifts) but I'd go higher for the right thing: otherwise I am considering the 20 gifts thing with smaller gifts but think that might make more sense for 50th...

Your best ideas and suggestions please....

For DH's 50th I did a gift per month - including friends, relatives etc. ie. A show with his parents, a salsa dancing class with some friends, hot air balloon with DD all culminating in a great family holiday. He's still trying to come close with his presents for me! The great thing is that it spread the cost, and although the holiday was extravagant, it created brilliant memories for all of us. And some of the months weren't expensive - one was the new James Bond film, so the cost of a couple of cinema tickets. Also a family trip to Go Ape. He and DS went on a cookery course.

DH is a great one for 'experiences' rather than 'gifts', so it worked well for him.

Thanks @ajandjjmum. I had wondered about something like that. My concerns are a) covid and the chance that some of the stuff I might plan will get cancelled (we had provisionally planned a big 50th holiday: not looking likely now) plus my birthday is in a very similar time frame and I think if I plan lots and he hasn’t he’ll feel really bad! Thinking about experiences is usually my go to though so maybe I need to think about 12 experiences for us both + different ppl - I can see that might work...

Probably out of budget and probably impractical this year, but 20th is traditionally China. A trip to Hong Kong?
Failing that something like a ‘China’ associated weekend away in the UK? Portmeirion might be fun. Ironbridge is a good couple of days. I’d avoid Stoke personally, but Poole has a famous pottery or Cornwall maybe.

Swiss Army knife.

Our planned trip was far east @LemonRoses :-( but as you say probably not viable this year - and we were thinking Japan rather than China, but still a link!) Poole pottery is actually an great thought as we have a few Poole pieces ... and never been to Portmeiron (we are both from Midlands, and agree that Stoke wouldn't be my idea of a special treat, no offence to Stoke. Well, not much ;-)

He also loves pottery: a previous present was a day with a potters wheel which he loved (& produced some really lovely bowls!)

Would he like a Pinter to brew his own beer, they are about £75 and there are several different choices of hop mixes to make different types of beer? Have a look at the Greater Good for more info. DH has one and is really impressed with it.

Ooh, that looks cool, thanks @trickofthetail1: he uses barrels usually, and often tweaks his kits a bit (he has a little notebook where he writes it all down) - is this a bit more of an all-in-one kit/is there the option to personalise a bit? I would love it as it would mean that we wouldn't have vats of mash around the kitchen, but I wonder if he'd think it's cheating ;-) Otoh, the red beers do look good, and it might mean he brewed more often...

It is an all in one kit, it makes home brewing very easy, no vats of mash needed, he might think it is cheating though. My DH likes the simplicity of the system, just choose the beer type and add to the Pinter with water and the yeast ,(all supplied), it brews quickly and then takes a few days in the fridge to condition. My DH is very particular about beer, almost went into brewing as a career many years ago but doesn't have the patience now to do home brew so was really pleased when he discovered the Pinter system. He does side by side comparisons with his favourite bottled beers, so far he says the Pinter wins ,it has been an alternative during lockdown when he hasn't been able to have a 'proper' pint in the pub.

Ha: side by side comparisons sound like they might happen in my house ;-) Yes, dp has worked (a long time ago now) in a brewery, and when 2 million falls from the sky, his pipe dream would be to set up a little microbrewery, so your dp sounds very similar! It is a cute bit of kit, I must say, definitely added to the 'in the running' list, thank you :-)