Coffee fans, please help me find a gift

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I don’t like tea or coffee so I’m floundering.
My DS developed a taste for coffee at Uni
He likes Douwe Egbert medium but buys Aldi own brand.
At cafes he sometimes orders Mocha
He has a job and a room in a house share so he’s on a better budget than before
Id like to get him a cafetière or coffee maker for Christmas.
He's very environmentally conscious so nothing single use.
What do you suggest please?

I'd get him just that - a cafietiere, a bag of coffee and a pair of decent mugs. You could even get a coffee beans grinder. For coffee brands for now, if he's just into coffee and will shop at supermarkets, I'd stick to Lavazza, probably.

How about an aeropress? It works with ground coffee to make a single cup. Probably more efficient than a cafetière if just for him. It’s like a mini cafetière - https://www.aeropress.co.uk/

I definitely recommend an aeropress too. Much easier to recycle the grounds using that than trying to scrape them out of a cafetière!

Have a look at the Pact website - they do bundles incl an aeropress which are good for gifts.

Grind do nice tins if you just want coffee.

A go-to gift for me is ground coffee from a local roasters and double walled glass cups/mugs. You can get the cups/mugs quite cheaply from Tesco or Dunelm but they’re a bit different to a normal mug I guess. It would also be nice to get him a cafetière, you can get them in Tesco or Dunelm too but John Lewis or somewhere would no doubt be better quality!

A cafetière and some nice coffee. It makes unfiltered coffee, which is nicer because it allows the oils to come through.

If you want a pre-Christmas gift, a coffee advent calendar. I had one last year from Pact and it was great to taste single origin coffees because you really see the difference between them. He will need a cafetière or pour over coffee maker to make them though, so you might need to get both.

I come on here to say aeropress too!

Id not heard of Aeropress. I’ve just had a look. Not as pretty as a cafetière.
I also need to get filters?
Do they both use the same type of coffee? What would taste like the Douwe Egbert please?

You can get Douwe Egbert ground coffee or beans. I'm not sure if you mean he's currently drinking DE instant.

Came on to say aeropress too- they use small circle paper filters you can get from Amazon. You use ground coffee in an aeropress, I love mine.

also wanted to suggest grind for the coffee, they have some lovely tins for storage too.

@SwedishEdith yes, just instant.

Bodum do a travel mug with a french press in, which is great

Aeropress. We have one that we take on holiday. The filters cost next to nothing for thousands of them.

You want a medium grind for aeropress. Aldi ground coffee is fine.

An aeropress is a lot easier to clean than a cafetiere.

Have a look at skullcrusher coffee. They do extra strong coffee and lots of accessories.

https://skullcrushercoffee.com/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22820651748&gclid=CjwKCAjwuePGBhBZEiwAIGCVSz_Zvv1L8iG9Q-dwbrRi9qOOl-y2HJQ_yPuHjJ0n5PIAcmTgfBGMAhoCzgwQAvD_BwE

Coffee grinder
Cafeteria
and beans.

image is of my favourite grinder from Krups and you can buy beans online. Or at Lidl in 1kg bags at about 80p/100g.

Aeropress with the metal coffee filter that's reusable rather than the disposable paper ones.

And plenty of coffee - DH swears by Lidl Deluxe Guatemalan (purple packaging).

Ditch the instant. Proper ground coffee tastes way better. Coffee beans are even better but as a starting point ground coffee is a good step up from instant. Just buy a cafetiere and a bag of decent ground coffee. Pricey but delicious is Illy ground coffee and it comes in a tin which he can reuse for bags of ground coffee.
An aeropress is good, but a cafetiere is fine also. Bodum do some decent ones.

https://www.hrhiggins.co.uk/
These people are an excellent source of very nice coffee.

Definitely an areopress!

I use Next Day Coffee.
Lovely beans and not expensive
£14/15 per kilo average

Aeropress are brilliant- filters easily available but I also met someone who had a metal one. beans can either be ground by a coffee shop or buy medium ground.

All this will be so much nicer than instant.

We use one of the metal reusable filters for our aeropress.