Basket of Pittsburgh just might have something for everyone with an affinity for Pittsburgh.
The Robinson-based company offers a slew of Pittsburgh-themed baskets for gift recipients who range from sports lovers to wine aficionados to new parents to snack fans to anyone else – and price ranges vary widely.
For example, the $20 Steel City Sipper gift set is a hand-painted wine glass and customized wine gift box. (Wine not included.)
The $82 Heinz Hamper includes 14 items, including a Parma Sausage Co. pepperoni stick, Venus Capeachios water crackers, Heinz mustard and ketchup, and Myron Cope's Official Terrible Towel.
If you don't see a pre-packaged basket that you like, Basket of Pittsburgh can customize a gift for you.
This week, local delivery is available through Saturday.
It's exactly what its name implies: a chess game with a Pittsburgh theme.
The pieces are small replicas of iconic Pittsburgh buildings.
"The PPG Building looks like a castle ...a perfect rook. The Cathedral of Learning has to be a bishop. The U.S. Steel Building was once one of the tallest buildings in the US making for an excellent king," Brad Cline, the company's creator, wrote on its website.
Steel City Chess started selling the games in 2015.
The chess pieces are made of polystone, which is a resin mixed with particles of stone.
"It creates a porcelain-like feel with a heaviness that creates a durable, detailed figurine," Cline wrote.
The 32 chess pieces – 16 black and 16 gold – are priced at $185. The $85 black and gold board is sold separately.
Order online by Wednesday in order for delivery before Christmas. Also, the pieces and board can be purchased in person at Visit Pittsburgh's Welcome Center, Soergel Orchards Gift Barn, Carnegie Museum of Art's gift shop, S.W. Randall Toyes & Giftes and Artifacts.
Opened in 2012 in the Strip District, Wigle Whiskey is the only whiskey distillery in Western Pennsylvania and the first in Pittsburgh since Prohibition.
The family-owned and operated business produces organic spirits using local heirloom grains.
It also offers tours, tastings and cocktails, so holiday presents from Wigle could include bottled drinks, such as Organic Straight Monongahela Rye and Organic Winter Malt, or gift cards.
For the do-it-yourselfer in your life, you might consider picking up a Lickety Split Aging Kit, which includes a 2-liter barrel, two Wigle snifters, and two 750-milliliter bottles of handcrafted, organic un-aged White Rye Whiskey.
Wigle also sells tour tickets, ranging from $15 to $25, for its barrelhouse and whiskey garden in Spring Garden, distillery tasting room in the Strip District, and tasting room and bottle shop in the Omni William Penn Hotel, Downtown.
In addition to selling at its three locations, Wigle products are available online and at state-run wine and spirits stores.
What true Pittsburgher hasn't partaken in some?
Isaly's Chipped Chopped Ham is to the Steel City what croissants are to Paris. Or as Isaly's states on its website, "Boston has its Baked Beans. Philly has its Cheesesteaks. Pittsburgh, Ohio, West Virginia and surrounds? We have Isaly's Original Chipped Chopped Ham."
Pittsburghers have a lifelong affinity for the thinly sliced ham, whose U.S. origins can be traced to Swiss cheesemaker Christian Isaly immigrating to Monroe County, Ohio, in 1833.
Isaly's, which also invented the Klondike Bar, used to have about 400 stores selling its deli meats and dairy products in Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania in the 1940s.
Today, Isaly's Chipped Chopped Ham, ice cream and other food products are sold in Giant Eagle, Kuhn's and other stores. Pennsylvania Macaroni Co. sells Isaly's products in its Strip District store and online.
Pennsylvania Macaroni also has several gift packages that include Isaly's products. The $67 Yinz Burgh Gift Box has 11 items, including two 1-pound packages of Isaly's chipped chopped ham, a 16-ounce jar of Isaly's barbecue sauce and a half-gallon of Turner's iced tea.
Online, Isaly's also sells paraphernalia, such as an aprons, mugs and T-shirts, that might be great for stocking stuffers. Orders must be placed by Tuesday in order to be delivered by Christmas without expedited shipping fees.
It's an iconic Pittsburgh beer though it's technically not brewed in the city anymore.
Iron City is the flagship beer, a traditional American lager, made by the Pittsburgh Brewing Co.
"Built on 150 years of brewing experience, Iron City Beer boasts scents of sweet corn and wheat, smooth crisp pale malt flavor, and a dry finish with very little bitterness. Our signature recipe, Iron City Beer is lightly-hopped and carbonated and easy to drink," according to Pittsburgh Brewing Co.'s website.
Pittsburgh Brewing is headquartered in Lawrenceville but moved its brewing operations to Latrobe in 2009.
The company's beers also include Block House Brewing Imperial Red Ale, Old German and American.
While newer, trendier craft brewers continue to set up shop in Pittsburgh, many Yinzers remain partial to Iron City Beer, the brew that their families have sipped on (or chugged) for generations.
Iron City Beer is available in cans and bottles at local grocery stores and beer distributors.
Pittsburghers wear their love for their city on their sleeves – and on their backs, chests, legs, heads, feet, etc.
For the proud Yinzer in your life, Downtown-based Steel City has your back. The retailer sells shirts, hats, ties, socks and other items with in-house designs featuring Pittsburgh sports themes and other names and catchphrases that show the city love.
Phrases, such as "Wish Yinz a Merry Christmas" and "Merry Christmas Yinz Filthy Animals," imprinted on special holiday designs blend the festive season and Pittsburgh culture.
Finish off a gift box with a Fort Pitt Beer Tap and black and gold Yinz socks.
What says you care about a Pittsburgher more than the gift of permanent body ink?
Several local tattoo parlors offer gift cards and specialize in Steel City-themed body art.
At Pittsburgh Tattoo Co. & Piercing , Downtown, sports-related designs featuring Steelers, Penguins and Pirates themes are popular, said co-owner Josh McQuade.
The week before Christmas is a busy time for gift card purchases, he said.
The 3-year-old shop sells gift certificates in the store, and online in $50, $100 and $200 increments.
Christmas is a week away, which means a lot of procrastinators will be stopping in gas stations this weekend to buy gift cards that require little effort or thought.
But for those who want to at least look like they really tried to impress the Pittsburgher in their lives, Upgruv has compiled a list of gifts that any true Yinzer would love — or tolerate.