Treating yourself to a sip of ice-cold water, refreshing fruit juice, or a cup of hot coffee requires a drinking bottle that suits you. When making your choice, consider the following factors:
- Insulation: do you prefer to drink water ice-cold instead of room temperature? Or do you also want to be able to enjoy a hot drink on the go? You can do both with an insulation bottle. They are made of stainless steel and more robust than an ordinary drinking bottle because of the double-sided wall that creates a kind of vacuum. This prevents hot and cold air from entering or leaving.
- Content: only a little thirsty or just taking a short trip? Then a 300 ml to 500 ml bottle will suffice. Really thirsty or ready for a big adventure? Then choose a bottle of 800 ml or more.
- Material: we have drinking bottles in aluminium, stainless steel, plastic, and copolyester.
- Aluminium: lightweight, sustainable, and coated to protect the material from acidic drinks. Cheaper than stainless steel.
- Stainless steel: even more sustainable than aluminium, dents less quickly, is abrasion-resistant, and does not absorb taste or smell.
- Plastic: lightweight and relatively cheap, but unfortunately not always recyclable and thus less sustainable.
- Copolyester: also known as ‘tritan’, does not absorb odour or taste and is very strong.
- Cap: a good bottle cap is leakproof and easy to open and close. But there is also the right cap for every type of adventure and preference:
- Twist cap: leakproof and often comes with a carrying ring.
- Sports cap: useful for those who want to be able to use their bottle with one hand.
- Lid with flip top: leakproof and suitable for hot drinks.
- Spout: useful for small children who cannot yet drink well from a bottle.
Other features you can still take into account are whether your bottle is dishwasher-proof, whether it doesn’t contain harmful substances like BPA (you won’t find those at A.S.Adventure anyway!), and whether you can also use the cap as a cup.
