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February 7, 2014 By Chas Bruce

Liquid Hardware Outrigger Stainless Steel Water Bottle

Liquid Hardware Outrigger Stainless Steel Water Bottle.
Liquid Hardwear Outrigger Stainless Steel Water Bottle

We thought we’d seen it all in Stainless Steel water bottles. But here’s a new one, fresh from Kickstarter: a water bottle with a magnetic tether. A convenient way to keep the lid at hand while drinking, filling, cleaning, or whatever. Keeps it out of your pocket or forgotten on some horizontal surface somewhere.

The Quick Stick Lid uses a strong rare-earth Neodymium magnet that attaches to a a magnetic ring at the neck. So strong they advise you to keep it away from memory chips and magnetic credit card strips. But, as we found, not strong enough to say stow it against a metal part of your car to keep it from rolling around. And not really strong enough to stick to other parts of the stainless bottle. Stainless is notoriously not magnet friendly. They tell us a Super Stick Lid is the way to facilitate locking a full bottle to something ferrous.

Liquid Hardware also has plans for a vacuum version and perhaps a growler down the road. Crafted from food grade 304 stainless steel with a BPA free plastic lid. The boys from Idaho promised one-handed operation, but the one-fisted jujitsu was beyond me.

27 oz./800ml.

$24

Filed Under: Hydration Tagged With: Liquid Hardware, water bottle

February 7, 2014 By Chas Bruce

Bear Grylls Canteen Water Bottle with Cooking Cup

Bear Grylls Canteen Water Bottle with Cooking Cup
Bear Grylls Canteen Water Bottle with Cooking Cup

Gerber, as part of their Bear Grylls Survival line, has come up with this update on the classic military plastic canteen.

Made now of BPA-free plastic with a textured grip enhancing and a securely locking leakproof cap. Fitted to the base is another classic military item: a fitted cup/cooking pot. Made of  food grade aluminum, it holds about 8oz. The whole outfit comes fitted in a nylon belt-riding pouch. Also in the box is a Bear Grylls’ “Priorities of Survival” pocket guide.

Your testers have become leery of any plastic water vessels or aluminum cooking pots, and are not convinced that a stainless steel water bottle wouldn’t do both jobs better. Unless you’re going for the space-age military look.

$37

Filed Under: Hydration Tagged With: Bear Grylls, Gerber, water bottle

May 1, 2013 By Chas Bruce

Vargo Titanium BOT – Water Bottle/Cooking Pot

Vargo Titanium BOT - Water Bottle / Cooking Pot
Vargo Titanium BOT — Water Bottle/Cooking Pot

No need to carry both a water bottle and cooking pot, the “BOT” is designed to be used as both–and in Titanium, no less for you ultralight weight savers.

The BOT slips  into most water bottle pockets for easy access whether you need a quick drink or when you’re preparing to tuck in. The screw-top lid turns upside down and nestles in the top as a cooking lid. The temperature resistant O-ring won’t melt when exposed to high heat. The lid is pot-lifter friendly and easy to grip.

Capacity: 1.0 Liters (34 ounces) Weight: 4.7 ounces (133 grams) Dimensions: 6.5 L x 3.9 D inches (165 x 99 mm). Check the Vargo website for their various Titanium cooksets, stoves, campware (don’t miss the titanium chopsticks), and the rest of the “Titanium Lifestyle,” as they put it.

$100

Filed Under: Camp Kitchen Tagged With: cooking pots, Vargo, water bottle

April 30, 2013 By Chas Bruce

KRU82 Stainless Water Bottle w/ Vodka

KRU82 Stainless Water Bottle with Vodka
KRU82 Stainless Water Bottle with Vodka

The KRU 82 Stainless Water Bottle, complete with 750ml of KRU82 Dutch grain-distilled Vodka.

It features a fairly typical stainless water bottle that comes loaded with Vodka. For you Vodka fans, it means you can peel the label off, and have a trail-stash ready bottle of vodka ready to go. And once you do finish off the alcohol, you can refill it with any liquid — water, for example. You can probably fire up a alcohol stove with KRU82.

Fastened to the top is KRU’s signature black strap and metal carabiner, making it easy to tote KRU to the party or to an alpine trek. KRU claims it is equally at home on the rocks at a club, or on the rocks of the nearest beach.

You’ll find KRU in a variety of sizes from 1.75L down to a handy 200ml.

$22/750ml

Filed Under: Hydration Tagged With: KRU 82, vodka, water bottle

July 10, 2012 By Chas Bruce

Dajo Stainless Steel Water Bottle with Clip

Dajo Stainless Steel Water Bottle with clip
Dajo Stainless Steel Water Bottle with Clip

This handy stainless water bottle incorporates a carabiner type clip into the cap.

Easy to clip to your pack or gear, it has a nice wide thread on the cap to make for easy removal and opening and large enough to accept ice cubes. Well polished and with the Dajo Graphics.

Available in three sizes: 600ml, 750ml and 1000ml.

$11 – $15

Filed Under: Hydration Tagged With: Dajo Adventure Gear, water bottle

July 9, 2012 By Chas Bruce

Liberty Topo Water Bottle

Liberty makes aluminum bottles lined with a food grade coating. The most notable part of their design is the 1/4 turn tops. Fast and easy. Although sometimes easy to cross-thread.

They have some of the most colorful designs out there. Many done by independent artists. For the outdoors crowd I like the Topo maps, which include a topo map of Longs Peak, near Boulder.

The inked designs are thick and pretty scratch proof. I understand they use Cylindrical Digital Printing which they call, “The most advance method of putting graphics on bottles and we are the only people that can do it!”

I got a 32 oz bottle from Northface at the last show and it has proved to be indestructible.

$20 for 32 oz.

Filed Under: Hydration Tagged With: Liberty Bottleworks, water bottle

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