If you know a plumber who unwinds with coffee the same way they unwind after a long job – slowly, deliberately, without talking to anyone – this is the mug for them. It's for the person who has copper fittings in their jacket pocket right now and considers a brass gate valve a perfectly reasonable countertop decoration.
The art on the mug is an oil-style illustration with thick, painterly brushwork – a big adjustable pipe wrench laid out horizontally, copper elbows and couplers scattered on either side, and a brass gate valve sitting in the corner like it owns the place. All of it sits against a dark green basketweave background, and across the top it reads PIPES DOWN, DAY DONE in bold tan serif lettering. It looks like something you'd hang in the shop if you were slightly more pretentious than you actually are. That's a compliment.
It comes in 11oz and 15oz. Both sizes are dishwasher safe and microwave safe, so you can reheat that forgotten coffee without drama.
It's the kind of thing a plumber buys for themselves, or that someone who actually pays attention buys for the plumber in their life.
