In the making
The festival cup you took home, built for the rest of the year.
A single-wall stainless steel cup for everyday drinking. Made in Lisbon by a very small company, one run at a time.
You cannot buy it here yet.
The cups do not exist yet — the first run is being sourced. This page exists so the thing has an address while that happens. There is no price on it, nothing to click and nothing to pay, and it collects nothing about you.
Want to know when the first run opens? Write one line to becher@mohaupt-bringts.com. A person reads it and answers.
Why this cup
If you have been to a festival in Portugal you probably own one: a thin metal cup with somebody else's logo on it, kept because it was in your hand while something happened. It cost you a euro or two of deposit you never reclaimed, or four euros over the bar. Either way, nobody asked for it back.
Then it sits in the cupboard, because it was made to be filled behind a bar four hundred times, not to be yours.
BECHER is that cup, made properly and made to keep. Single-wall stainless steel, tapered, no handle, rolled lip, nothing to break. Watermelon juice at the miradouro, cider on a rooftop, coffee at 5 a.m. before the sun comes up. It stacks and it takes a fall. Whether it survives your dishwasher we have not tested yet — the honest answer is below, and it will stay honest.
All four images are AI-generated drafts of a neutral unbranded cup. No real person, place or product is depicted.
What we are building
These are the specifications we are building to, measured off the festival cup we are reproducing. They are confirmed against real samples before any factory order is placed, and the final numbers will be published here.
| Material | Stainless steel, grade 304 (18/8). We require the grade in writing from the factory, together with a food-contact declaration of compliance under EU Regulation 1935/2004. No declaration, no shipment. |
|---|---|
| Construction | Single wall, no handle, tapered so the cups stack, rolled-over lip. Not insulated: a cold drink stays cold for a while, a hot drink does not, and the outside gets warm. That is the cup this is. |
| Size (target) | About 13 cm tall, about 9 cm across the top, about 6 cm at the base. |
| Capacity (target) | About 0,4 l for normal pouring; a little over 0,5 l filled to the very brim. |
| Weight and wall | Not decided yet — see the question below. |
| Single colour, along the axis of the cup. The design is not final and is not shown in the illustrations above. | |
| Dishwasher | We do not claim it yet. We test it on the samples ourselves, and we will write the answer here — including if the answer is no. |
One question we have not answered
The festival cup we measured has a very thin wall — 0,3 mm, 81 grams. That is exactly why it feels like a festival cup, and it is also why it dents. A heavier wall (around 0,45 mm, about 120 grams) feels like a shelf product and costs about a euro more per cup.
We have not decided, and we would rather decide it with the people who will drink out of it than alone. If you have an opinion, the email address above reaches a person.