Top 10 Unusual coffee gifts: So you have your cousin, the heavy gourmet coffee drinker and you want to surprise them this year. But you want to keep it coffee related but not give them the usual coffee beans, or gourmet coffee gift basket or even the usual gourmet coffee accessories or coffee mugs. And they are still using last year's coffee gift basket and the French press coffee maker only lasted a month before it wore out its differentness and became a hassle.
So what can you give the coffee drinker and keep it usual. Glad you asked?
1. Java logs - Especially for the environmentally conscious coffee-drinker. Java logs are man-made fireplace logs that are made up mostly of coffee grounds
2. Coffee flavored shampoo - for those who just can't get enough of that coffee aroma and want to smell like coffee all day. Purposively good for the hair though I'm sure the oil is beneficial.
3. Java love lotion - rub on your partner and see if they are as hot as your morning coffee. This has to be taking the "I love coffee" concept too far. ( I'm not making this up)
4. The Barista Action Figure - You coffee superhero can wake you in the morning and save you in the afternoon and make your favorite espresso in the afternoon. ( I'm not making this up)
5. Java necklace - a necklace of roasted and urethane coffee beans and your favorite jewelry stones. What better way to declare your love of coffee to the world? Beaded necklaces and other jewelry made with beads and coffee beans. Choose your favorite roast and favorite stones. Does love get any better than this?
6. Just coffee art - fine canvas paintings completely painted with paint made from coffee oils. It's hard to believe that these amazing paintings are done entirely in coffee. Why do they paint with coffee? Not sure but I am waiting on the body coffee paints...
7. A real live coffee tree - makes a great indoor plant though I wouldn't count on any coffee beans. If you do happen to grow some please send to Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee. An ideal gift for any coffee-lover who also has a green thumb. These plants will actually bloom and produce coffee cherries, given the right and perfect growing conditions (they do well indoors as a plant but not a coffee producer).
8. Kopi Luwak coffee beans - don't try this at home. Surprise someone with a gift box of the rarest coffee there is. It's also the strangest in my opinion. The Luwak coffee beans have actually been eaten by a small animal before being collected and roasted - poop washed off.
9. Chocolate covered coffee beans - the perfect combination of chocolate and coffee beans or your perfect dose of sugar and caffeine. Give this to your children and watch them bounce off your walls - for days. I can't imagine eating more than two of these. Take before your next 100 meter dash sprint.
10. Javapops - sweet candy that taste like coffee and is packed with 60 mg of caffeine. The perfect follow-up to the chocolate covered coffee beans. When your kids are coming off their 2 day chocolate covered bean high - give them two of these to offset the down mood. Or use these with your spouse before you lather them up with the coffee bean shampoo.
Isn't that coffee gift basket looking better and better? If you really want any of these gifts just Google the gift idea and buy online.
Boake Moore is an IT Sales engineer by trade and founded a non profit coffee company called Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee - http://www.missiongrounds.com/ourphilosophy.php It donates all its profits and proceeds to helping orphans and impoverished children. We currently are building schools in rural China, orphanages in South America; supporting orphans in Russia and Africa. And helping homeless children in the United States.
Lets make the world better -
George "Boake" Moore
Mission Grounds
Krups Coffee Maker
0 comments:
Post a Comment