Looking for hot, drinkable holiday gifts? This is the part two of gift guide for you! (Part one was on tea gifts.)

Coffee Gifts
From holiday blends to subscriptions, these are the hot coffee gifts for the holidays!

Counter Culture Coffee offers single espresso, double espresso and coffee subscriptions as well as a noteworthy holiday blend coffee. (Every three 12-ounce bags sold will provide a healthy tree to a Guatemalan coffee farmers so they can shade-grow their coffee.)

Newcomer Go Coffee Go offers coffee gift certificates that can be printed at home and used to buy coffee from a number of roasters, including Klatch, Higher Ground, Verve, Barefoot and Zoka.

For the coffee connoisseur on your list, Stumptown Coffee Roasters' Grand Cru coffees are well worth checking out.

Vivabox gift company offers a cool "coffee talk" gift set, complete with Torani syrup and a jazz CD.

Zingerman's is known for quality, so I was thrilled when they introduced the Zingerman's Coffee Club. They describe it as a "High quality caffeine addiction, delivered monthly." Gotta love it!

Hot Chocolate
What says "winter" better than hot chocolate? These premium drinking chocolates are sure to warm loved ones on your gift list.

MarieBelle Hot Chocolates come in four flavors: classic, dark, mocha and spicy. Just visiting their website makes me miss living in NYC and being able to visit their locations!

Vosges is a pioneer in avant garde chocolate. The Vosges Drinking Chocolates are no exception -- they come in exotic flavors with unexpected ingredients like chipotle chillies, lemon myrtle and lavender. They may sound a little odd, but I assure you they're a foodie's delight.

Combination Gifts
Looking for a set that combines different hot drinks into one sippable set? Or perhaps you're looking for foods to pair with the coffee/tea/cocoa gift you've already selected. Here are a few highly giftable options:

Ugly Mug Tour combines coffee, cocoa and chai in one gift set. For $6 to $10 more, you can throw in a mug or tumbler.

Foodzie makes it easy to create your own gift sets. Select from small, local suppliers who provide gourmet hot chocolate, coffee and tea, and don't forget to check out their amazing foods, some of which are perfect for pairing with cocoa, coffee and tea.
(Disclaimer -- I have previously written copy for Foodzie.)

Another great source for giftable foods to pair with hot drinks is Zingerman's. They are famed for their coffeecakes (they even offer a coffeecake club) and other baked goods.

Photo (c) Marko Goodwin

Looking for tea gifts to share this holiday season? Check out these holiday flavors, gift sets and subscriptions, top teaware gifts and Kosher teas, and then read up on Black Friday/Cyber Monday tea sales:

Holiday-Friendly Flavored Teas
Adagio carries a huge range of flavored teas, including holiday favorites like Cinnamon, Ginger, Oriental Spice, Sweet Potato Pie and the aptly named Christmas.

The English Tea Store offers a Holiday Spice Tea as well as a range of British cookies and cakes that are great for making your own tea-themed gift baskets.

Japanese company Lupicia has lovely French-inspired flavored tea gifts in holiday-themed tins.

Rishi's Organic Plum Cinnamon Rooibos tastes like the holidays and donates 25% of its profits to the Clean Water Fund.

Silver Tips carries a fantastic selection of masala chai teas. I find that chais have the perfect combination of sugar and spice (and caffeine) for the holidays.

Tantalizing Tea has two holiday flavors of note: Pumpkin Harvest Rooibos (currently on sale) and Gingerbread House.

Tea Gift Sets & Subscriptions

Jing offers two "New to Tea" Sets based on tea type and tea origin. They also offer "The Complete Set of Whole Leaf Tea in Tins", which contains tins of Fair Trade Jasmine Pearls, Organic and Fair Trade Dragon Well Green Tea, JING Assam Breakfast and Silver Needle White Tea.

Rishi recently launched their three "Taste of Origin" gift sets, which feature organic, Fair Trade teas from three different origins. Each set is different and (if the teas I've tasted from them are any indication) they're pretty impressive.

Samovar Tea Lounge will soon carry a range of gorgeously packaged gift sets for the holidays, each with a different focus. Check back soon to find them in stock.
(Disclaimer -- I write copy and other content for Samovar.)

Teance has a truly stellar tea subscription program that's perfect for the tea connoisseur or "person who has it all" on your list. I am a subscriber and have been nothing but thrilled with their teas.

Vivabox gift company offers a cool "tea time" gift set featuring teabags, flowering teas and loose teas from Numi, plus a glass teapot, relaxing CD and eco-chic packaging.

Top Teaware Gifts (Check out the linked reviews for more information on each product.)

The Breville Variable Temperature Kettle is a tea lover's dream come true.

The Eight Cranes Perfect Steeper is my favorite travel infuser on the market. It's perfect for oolongs and great for other loose-leaf teas.

The Mighty Leaf Infuser is a fantastic infuser for people on your list who drink tea from teabags.

Kosher Teas
Republic of Tea carries a range of Certified Kosher Tea.

Samovar also offers several Kosher teas.
(Disclaimer -- I write copy and other content for Samovar.)

Your Favorite Tea Gifts
I've talked with people who are sharing tea thermometers, tea kettles and tea subscriptions. I'm sharing some teaware, a subscription and some tea-related foods. What are you crossing off the shopping list this season?

Photo (c) Marko Goodwin

Looking for some holiday deals? Check out these top sales on tea and teaware:

Adagio is offering free shipping off orders of $25 or more for the month of November. This is ideal for gifts because you can easily separate out multiple gift orders of $25 or more for free shipping. If you or your gift recipients like flavored teas, Adagio is a good place to buy them!

Rishi Tea is offering different one-day sales from November 27th through December 31st, 2009. They haven't announced how much the sales will discount their teas/teaware, but I have to say that's a pretty cool sale! Also, Rishi is a great source for organic/Fair Trade teas and Japanese green teas in general.

Samovar Tea Lounge will feature a range of products on short-term sales now through Christmas. Check out their site and sign up for their emails for the latest offerings. I highly recommend their rare offerings, like Hawaii-grown teas and Royal Garland (an oolong tea from a white tea bush). (Disclaimer -- I write copy for Samovar.)

Teance is offering free shipping on orders over $50 November 20th through 27th, 2009 with the coupon code THANKS. (I'll be using this to gift their stellar tea subscriptions.) Also, their Spring Oolong Teas are 25% off for the month of November. (Bonus: Their oolongs are, arguably, their best offerings, and Teance's owner, Winnie Yu, considers spring and winter to be the best harvest seasons for oolong.)

Teas, Etc. is having a Black Friday/Cyber Monday special from Thursday Nov 26 at 9.00 am EST through Monday Nov 30 at 11.59 pm EST. Take 20% off everything and get free shipping on orders over $60 with the discount code GIFT2009. That's a great deal! Also, Teas, Etc. is woman-owned and it's a wonderful source for organic, Fair Trade teas and many Chinese teas.

The Tea Table is offering discounts based on purchase size through December 2nd, 2009. To save $4.00 on a minimum order of $40.00, enter code SAVE4. To save $10.00 on a minimum order of $80.00, enter code SAVE10. To save $16.00 on a minimum order of $120.00, enter code SAVE16. Gift Certificates and Tea of the Month Clubs are excluded from the offer.

Zhi Tea is offering 20% off all black teas through Monday November 30th, 2009. Into organics, Fair Trade or the Texan "buy local" movement? So is this hip, Austin-based tea company!

Photo (c) Lindsey Goodwin

Coffee and trivia collide! Here are some fun coffee facts to enjoy over your next cuppa:

The Oatmeal recently put out this great coffee comic that's brimming with fun coffee facts. It also contains a piece of commonly accepted misinformation. Coffee isn't really the second-most traded commodity... but it's a popular enough myth that many sources say it is. Don't hold it against them! It's still a fantastic comic.

CocoaJava put together a cute collection of fun coffee facts. Here's a sample: "Turkish bridegrooms were once required to make a promise during their wedding ceremonies to always provide their new wives with coffee. If they failed to do so, it was grounds for divorce! (Ouch!)"

Here's a cool history of coffee in America that includes facts like, "American soldiers were so used to drinking coffee several times a day when they were overseas (that they) also consumed great amounts of coffee when they returned to the United States. Coffee houses became the new place to socialize."

Gourmet Coffee Zone came up with a sizable list of coffee statistics and facts, some of which are quite fascinating. One of my favorites reminds me of a recent article in Fresh Cup Magazine about coffee in Japan -- "In Japan, over 10,000 coffee cafes called 'Kissaten' serve the consumer demand in just Tokyo alone. Japan is the third highest coffee consuming nation in the world today." Oishi! (That's Japanese for "delicious.")

The National Coffee Association has all kind of cool coffee facts on their website. There, you can read about topics ranging from coffee production in the Americas to the value of coffee to the history of coffee around the world.

What are your favorite blogs and sites for reading more about coffee?

Photo (c) Marko Goodwin