Collection: Hydro Flask Loventine Gifts

It starts in Hawaii, where Travis Rosbach and Cindy Weber have had enough of lukewarm water and warm beer. They marvel at a simple thing: more than a hundred years after the invention of the vacuum flask, there is no bottle that simply works. Vacuum insulation at the time means a big, bulky coffee thermos. Nobody has thought of putting the same technology into a light, colourful everyday bottle. In 2009 the couple moves to Bend, Oregon — a small town obsessed with the outdoors — with almost no money and a shipment of the first bottles on the way. They start selling where it's cheapest and most honest at the same time: at farmers' markets and fairs — the Portland Saturday Market, county festivals, music festivals. No advertising. Just ice-cold water in a customer's hand as proof. The double-wall TempShield of food-grade 18/8 stainless steel keeps cold drinks cold for 24 hours and hot drinks hot for 12; the mouth is deliberately wide enough for full ice cubes, and the powder-coated finish in dozens of colours turns the bottle into an accessory, not a tool. It works so well that Hydro Flask effectively founds a new category and pulls the entire reusable-bottle market along with it. In 2016, the Helen of Troy group buys the brand for 210 million dollars, but headquarters stays in Bend, where you hike before work and cycle after lunch. A hundred-year-old technology, finally done properly. And lukewarm drinks consigned to where they belong: the past.