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looking for a wedding gift for my best man who is a coffee enthusiast.

Lover of decent coffee mainly V60 so I’m looking to get him a simple easy to use setup.

Would anyone be able to recommend a suitable setup other than beans/grounds which I’ll pickup from our local roasters for say sub £4/500
 
He would probably hit me with the capsules . But thanks for the suggestion


Ideally needs to be a proper filter machine
 
Hario Switch. If he doesn't have one. If he does, then they do a couple in ceramic now instead of glass.

Then a set of scales. Acaia if you want to splash out. Or these on a budget

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Then you need some filter papers.

If you really want to splash out, a hand grinder. This is a decent one, all metal. They make a cheaper plastic version but for a wedding, I would go nicer.

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sigma said:
Hate to be that guy but if he's an enthusiast he'll probably want to choose one himself?
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Or he would have everything he wanted/needed, especially as a V60 is relatively cheap to get a top end stuff. Like nobody needs a £100 V60 brewer, a £10 one does the same thing.

The most expensive part is going to be the grinder, or a gooseneck kettle. The only thing that has the biggest effect to the tastes after the beans is the grinder really.
 
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I honestly have no idea what a setup would cost tbh

But he’s a great mate and I’m making sure he gets a decent gift
 
233 said:
I honestly have no idea what a setup would cost tbh

But he’s a great mate and I’m making sure he gets a decent gift
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I do have a question.

Does it need to be like a complete set up? or just a couple of things?

A complete set up would be

Gooseneck kettle
V60 brewer
Filter paper
Grinder
Scales
Coffee Beans

(Lets leave out the water).

But a more targeted set up, assuming he has a grinder already, and if he has a grinder then he will have a set of scales and a kettle can be "skipped" if we go for the Hario Switch then you are just looking at the Hario Switch, Papers and coffee. Which really can be done around £50 all in.

The grinder is where you can go from £100 for a decent hand grinder like the one linked above, to something like a Fellow Ode Gen 2 Flatburr for lie £300, which is great for filter coffee and I think it looks good in a kitchen than most grinders. So if we are looking at a budget of £500 then that's where I would go, most of your money will go towards a grinder. However....if he is serious about coffee, like if he drinks espresso too, then he would already have a grinder and I would hesitate to get another electric one, but rather get a hand grinder instead, unless you want to spend more and get a grinder that can do both espresso and filter.
 
233 said:
Would a gaggia brera be a good all in one solution ?
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Not for a coffee enthusiasts.

It’s neither a V60 machine nor is it something a coffee enthusiasts would want. The things with enthusiasts are that we want control over how the coffee is made. We are NOT looking for ease of use, pressing a button and get coffee isn’t the goal. We actually kinda enjoy making the coffee part.

Besides, if he wants V60 and you get him this, it’s just going to sit in the box.

Speaking as a coffee enthusiasts myself, who drinks mainly V60, if someone got me an all in one coffee machine…I’m going to ask them to return it and keep their money. Or pretend I like it to be polite, but you will never see it in my kitchen.
 
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I quite enjoy my 9barista. https://9barista.com/ Probably cheaper knockoffs around these days but they produce nice espresso and look good while doing it. Less hassle to clean than a full machine too.
 
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Zero5 said:
I quite enjoy my 9barista. https://9barista.com/ Probably cheaper knockoffs around these days but they produce nice espresso and look good while doing it. Less hassle to clean than a full machine too.
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If you grind too thin.. it'll choke and you won't have a pressure relief mechanism!!

At least with a manual lever machine you can back off the pressure using the lever to reduce the inevitable coffee explosion (wrap towels around the group head and to pad the force of the filter).
 
Yet to happen and I went up the grain sizes too to dial it in. It does have pressure release valve on the main chamber as well. I was worried for a while that I had a small bomb in my kitchen but I got over that quite quickly once using it. Works great. I would like one of the lever machines but they take up too much space and can't travel as easy. This can go with me down to my parents much easier.
 
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