What are the best travel coffee mugs? At minimal, a good coffee travel mug should keep my coffee warm enough from first sip to last, should fit well in my vehicle cup holder, be easy and comfortable to drink from without difficult slides, levers, buttons, etc.; is nearly impossible to drip or leak and is easy to clean. One other feature that I feel is a must for me is a BPA-free (Bisphenol A) container. Since I now have a choice to drink from (more...)

What do you need to look for in a good thermal coffee carafe?  Well, first off it needs to be able to keep your gourmet coffee warm for a long enough time for you and other to enjoy later. It has to hold enough coffee for your needs, whether this is a insulated coffee carafe just for yourself or to hold enough coffee for you and perhaps one or more coffee drinkers.

Here are three well reviewed thermal carafes that people have liked because (more...)

A gourmet coffee club is a great gift for a coffee lover. Typically, each month a different gourmet coffee is hand-selected and delivered to your gift recipient. We've done some research and found some of the better gourmet coffee clubs that offer a variety of monthly coffee club choices.

Tradewinds has been in the speciality coffee business for over 20 years, has good customer service and high quality gourmet coffee.

Tradewinds Coffee offers six different Coffee of the Month Clubs: (more...)

Below you'll find sources for a gourmet coffee gift set that will impress even the hard-to-impress gourmet coffee lover. We've done some searching and found these to be some of the best.

Caribou Coffee offers 10 different gourmet coffee gift sets/baskets. They even have a "Go Green Gift Set" for your environmentally/socially conscious coffee love. It includes a pound of their organic blend, a recycled burlap lunch bag (hand sewn by women escaping poverty in Calcutta), and a Rainforest Alliance mug. They also have more elaborate sets like this picnic basket filled with assorted coffees, syrups and other goodies.

Caribou Coffee has very high quality coffee, and gives back to the coffee producing communities. For every pound of coffee Caribou buys, (more...)

Here are our picks for the best gourmet coffee gift baskets online. Our criteria, as mentioned on the gourmet coffee gift main page, included quality of coffee, customer service, shipping cost and delivery speed, and customer reviews. We found the gift baskets at Cafe Brit's store to have a nice variety and the quality of their coffee top-notch. They ship directly from their plantation in (more...)