Gift guide: twelve picks under 60

Everything here is something we own and keep using, which rules out most of what usually turns up on these lists.

For someone starting out

A ceramic dripper and a hundred filters costs less than a month of takeaway coffee and changes what they drink every morning. Pair it with a bag of something forgiving - a washed Colombian, not an experimental natural.

For someone with the gear already

• A tasting journal, for the person who keeps forgetting which setting worked.
• A set of cupping spoons, for the person who has started saying "notes of".
• An insulated tumbler, for the person whose coffee goes cold on their desk every single day.

For someone impossible to buy for

A subscription. Three months, one bag a month, no decisions required from anybody. It is the only gift on this list that cannot go wrong.