Best bottled water?

[BlueIris]

The kinds I listed are obviously not the only kinds out there, they're just the ones I drink. I'm sure lots of you will want to add your favorite brand.

[ALago1]

1. Seriously...

...can you really tell a difference between the brands?

If so, please share your observations, because I can't for the life of me distinguish brands of water.

[everythingsxen]

4. Absolutely

I mean the basic stuff, aquafina, store brand etc. etc. I really can't tell the difference. But when you are talking about like Tynant, Fiji or other stuff that is bottled from natural springs, it tastes.. well.. different. Fiji for example to me always tastes ice cold, even if it is warm.

[ThomCat]

17. Absolutely!

Evian tastes very sweet to me, like there's a trace of lead in the water.
Poland Springs tastes neutral to me.
Fiji does taste cold somehow.
Etc.

I can't drink some waters, because they taste like detergent to me, or I taste the mineral content.

[smirkymonkey]

35. Evain tastes sweet and very soft to me - I don't like it at all.

My vote would be for Volvic - I drink a TON of water, all day long, and I can taste the subtle differences.

Actually the best water I have ever had was the spring water from the town I grew up in (Upstate NY) we still have a water tub, from which spring water flows freely. People come from all around to bottle it and it's FREE! It's very crisp and clean - so refreshing!

[BlueIris]

38. Evian seriously tastes like it has dirt in it to me.

Blech.

[everythingsxen]

2. Fiji.. no contest

It is simply delicious water, I dunno why.

Second (and sometimes first when I am dehydrated) is SmartWater. Yummy electrolyte goodness.

[BlueIris]

8. You really should hook yourself up with some

Icelandic Glacial, Voss, or Hawaii Water. All of those leave Fiji in the dust in terms of purity and taste. Hawaii Water is so pure, it's sweet. But Voss and Glacial are also excellent and have (slightly) safer packaging. I agree that smart water's electrolytes make it worth the bland, vaguely gritty quality it has to it (it's not quite Evian gritty, but...it's there). Voss and Icelandic Glacial aren't cheap, but they're soooo worth the investment.

[everythingsxen]

9. I'll have to try those

I tried Fiji once on a lark and it was so good I fell in love with it.

[Delphinus]

3. The water from Iceland,

when I first tasted it, I thought I was in heaven. :)

[alarcojon]

5. Thorspring?

[Delphinus]

7. I don't remember!

They stopped selling it in this area years ago - it might be Thorspring. I do remember that it was from Iceland and it was simply delicious. My mouth waters thinking about it! Strange, for water, huh?

[hyphenate]

6. Some of these I've never heard of

I think Evian is still THE best water out there. However, in California, I drank mostly Arrowhead, and in Mass, where Arrowhead is not available, I like Poland Springs. For when I'm just out and need water, I'll drink either Aquafina or Dasani from the vending machines.

[BlueIris]

10. OK, to the person who voted for Arrow Head...try anything else.

You will be amazed at the jump in quality you'll get to enjoy if you spend the extra dollar. You have been drinking just...the worst water ever.

[LeftyMom]

11. Not only that, it's Nestle

Evil baby poisoning bastards. http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/boycott.html

[BlueIris]

22. Good to know that I only tried to drink one bottle of that and couldn't

get past one or two sips without gagging. And that was before I became a serious water snob.

[LeftyMom]

24. It's not quite the worst ever

Trader Joe's sells the worst bottled water ever. I'd rather drink our tap water, which is nasty and contaminated and smells like bleach.

[Xipe Totec]

12. Tap Water, straight from the garden hose

Nothing else will do.

[jobycom]

28. Garden hoses do add a flavor reminscent of my youth. Sort of tastes like

hot summer days when I'm smelling like cowshit because my friend's dad won't let us into the house and we have to play in his pasture and sweat so bad that it congeals on our skin like mucus while my friend thinks cow-pattie fights are the apex of entertainment.

Sick redneck child-abusing bastards. Yeah, that's my favorite water.

[Xipe Totec]

36. My Brother!

The only thing that tasted better than tap was water straight from the pond, after spending the day branding cattle.

Ah! good times...

:bounce:

[jobycom]

39. LOL

Never branded cattle, but I used to shovel manuer for my father's worm farm. And my favorite water was from a drainage ditch in the Kiln, Mississippi, because it flowed over shallow gravel at one point. Ah, the days before toxic sludge became part of the environment.

[JVS]

44. Hell yeah. They should put hoses out in public so we can drink it more

[Placebo]

13. FIJI WATER!

I only fucking drink Fiji Water!

I can't drink that other fucking water, it tastes thick!

[Redstone]

14. Well, they all must be damned good if people will pay $8 to $12 per gallon

for them, then bitch about $3 per gallon gasoline.

My favorite? The kitchen faucet.

Tastes good, I don't have to go to the store to get it, I don't pollute the earth with empty bottles (which, by the way, need CRUDE OIL and FOSSIL FUELS to make), and it costs me a cent and a quarter per gallon.

Redstone

[GOPisEvil]

15. You're lucky.

Actually, I am, too. The muni water here isn't too bad. But, there are other parts of Texas where the water is really laden with minerals and/or hard. I hate brushing my teeth with that crap, much less drink it.

[Redstone]

18. Well, then AT LEAST buy the water in GALLON bottles, and do a little

bit to help preserve the environment and cut down on global Warming.

Hey, even if you recycle all those 12-ounce bottles, do you think they just wash them out and refill them? No, they MELT them. Using hydrocarbon fuel to do it.

By the way, on your way to work tomorrow, look beside the road you're driving on. How many water bottles do you see there? Lots, I bet.

Redstone

[GOPisEvil]

19. True, true...

I reuse my bottles. I have a Brita water filter on my tap. I refill my own bottles. I try not to buy bottles of water when I can.

[Redstone]

25. Good deal. I know that Texas artesian water can be pretty grim.

Redstone

[GOPisEvil]

26. When you're in the shower, use 1/2 a bar of soap and see no suds...

...you know you're in (some parts) of Texas.

[Redstone]

32. Hard, hard stuff it is. You're right, I am lucky to live in a place where

there's NO need for a water-softening unit in the house, either.

Redstone

[JVS]

45. Get the gigantic 5 gallon cooler, often those get refilled

or at least they used to

[everythingsxen]

21. I'd like to note..

that I usually only drink bottled water at work, as the water "straight from the tap" here, contains brown flecks of a rust-like substance, known commonly as "rust".

[jobycom]

33. Poison yourself if you want, I guess.

With all the crap they add to tap water and the dubious sources from which the reclaim it, you might be safer to drink scumwater from the ditch outside. Not to mention that in some places here in Central Texas the water gives my cats urinary tract infections from the mineral content.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. I like Poland Spring

It sprays better... :spray:

[ThomCat]

20. Aquafina is just filtered tap water.

It's bottled by either Pepsico or Coke (I forget which) and it's just the same water they use to make their cola. They bottle it without the syrup or carbination and charge you more for it.

[BlueIris]

27. Ewwww, I know. It's my "for emergency use only" water.

Well, it's the lowest quality water I think I could stand in an emergency, anyway. I would drink other stuff if I were literally stranded on a desert island or something, but in normal circumstances (stuck in apartment building laundry room, for instance) Aquafina is as low as I could go. Even Evian is a tough swallow for me. I hate that stuff. It tastes like it has dirt in it.

[YankeyMCC]

23. I always try to use tap

at least in the US ... perhaps it's not always the best choice in some poorer countries...but at least tap water is tested to standards.

[ThomCat]

31. Tap water in Syracuse, NY (where I grew up)

tastes like detergent for weeks at a time several time a year, and it's hard water.
Tap water in Buffalo is a little better but I can still only stomach a small amount of it.
The water here in NYC is the best of the places I've lived.

Given how bad tap water can be I'm not sure I'd trust whatever standards they claim to adhere to.

[YankeyMCC]

37. I sometimes don't like the taste of the

tap water in the town I grew up in but it's really mostly what you're used to it didn't bother me while I was growing up.

[dubeskin]

29. A while back there was this stuff called Esker Water. That was the best.

[Redstone]

30. For the Fiji voters: Water is heavy. It takes a large amount of fossil

fuel to ship all those bottles of water six thousand miles to the USA.

Not to rain on your parade, but...think about it. Please.

Redstone

[NJ Democrats]

34. Poland Spring

[Redstone]

40. BlueIris, since you have your PM turned off, I'll tell you this here:

Don't think I'm trying to rain on your parade, m'dear. I just don't think people realize the environmental consequences of all those damn plastic bottles.

Redstone

[YellowRubberDuckie]

41. I'm really picky...

And the best I've ever had is the spring water from Target called Archer Farms. YUMMMY. completely tastless. But Evian comes in second.
Duckie

[BlueIris]

42. Hmmmm. I've never heard of that one.

Interesting. Good tip, thanks!

[JVS]

43. Tap water. Bottled water is too bourgeois to bear