Klean Kanteen Wide Insulated Bottle

I love my S'well bottles, don't get me wrong. But, one super early morning, while getting coffee at a Salcedo Village coffee shop, I heard one of the baristas wondering out loud how she was going to fit ice into my S'well. She wasn't able to, and my coffee that morning was just shaken in ice before it was transferred into my bottle.

This got me thinking on an alternative bottle for my coffee, and yes, milk tea needs. I may have curbed my consumption of plastic bottles from the beverages I often bought before, but coffee and milk tea come in plastic cups, and putting these in a non-insulated Starbucks tumbler wasn't really going to cut.

This is where I decided to buy a Klean Kanteen Wide Insulated Bottle. I was torn between getting the bottle in either Shale Black or Winter Plum, but since it was my first Klean Kanteen product, I eventually went with a neutral color.

I got the 20 oz. size, as a Venti coffee in Starbucks is roughly 20 oz, 24 oz with ice.

It has earned the investment I put in already, as I drink coffee at least thrice a day. My only issue is I might need a second bottle because I sometimes have a coffee drink, and milk tea simultaneously.

Looks like I will be getting a Winter Plum Klean Kanteen after all.

Liberty London and S'well Collaboration

Ever since I got bit by the S'well bug, one of the bottle designs that I set my eyes on was the collaboration with Liberty London featuring a fabric in blue with paisley prints.

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They called the bottle Marky, and this particular print on the fabric was released for Autumn/Winter 2001. The print was based on ancient calligraphy, and the released an updated look to the fabric. And here I thought they were paisleys... I actually call them polliwogs.

The newer collaboration bottles are sold online in Liberty London's website, I presume that these are available in the store.

The first batch though, the Marky bottle included, was sold in Starbucks.

The bottle was released in 2017, and was also made available locally. I saw this from an announcement made on Starbucks website, and it was priced at PhP 1,995.00 at the time.

I chanced upon a bottle being sold online, and I ordered it.

It arrived today, and it is just as beautiful as its pictures online. This is my favorite S'well bottle.

My next grail bottle is the Kelsey Montague collaboration bottle. I hope I can score one online, too.