Offero vessels.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF

Art consultant-turned-fishing guide Mitch Bangert was at a coffee shop tasting gourmet coffee in February 2010 when his host gave him a Dixie Cup and said, "Mitch, cup your hand over the back of this as you drink. I really want you to get the nose." A light bulb went off, and Bangert came up with the Offero, a cup designed to accommodate the quaffer's nose and mouth, crowned with an angular slant rather than a flat top.

"They say 80 percent of taste is smell," Banged says. "Remember the last time you had a cold? You couldn't taste anything." After this season, he's closing up his guide service in Saratoga, Wyo., to focus on Offero full...