Third Wave Water Mineral Enhanced Flavor Optimizing Coffee Brewing Water, Espresso Profile, 0.635 oz

I wasn't sure this was doing anything until I ran out and my espresso tasted flat and boring. My wife even noticed and asked if something was wrong with the coffee (LOL). Now she fully supports my nerdy coffee water. Its so cool being able to chase tasting notes and experience everything that coffee beans have to offer. Try it out for a week, then switch back to your normal coffee water. Sorry.

Way better than using my extreme mountain tap water. Helps take the bitterness of my coffee away.

YUM. Best tasting coffee we e ever been able to make at home. No need to go to the cafe anymore.

You're probably looking into this because you are seeking consistency in your coffee making a cup of coffee is basically a scientific experiment and it is important to remove any variable you can. So we measure grind size, water temp, roast date... but what is in your water is equally if not more important. It is 98% of the finished product.That said, third wave will certainly improve this! I do have a few suggestions for the user and the producer though. First, as someone who cares about the environment, I did have a little issue buying and recycling so many distilled water gallons. So I bought a Zero Water Filter and use that now rather than buying distilled water. The taste is the same end product and I consume less. That's always good. But this does come with a bit of a warning. Beware of volumetric measurements. At first I just eyeballed a gallon and poured it in the filter. All Zero filters come with a TDS meter. With volumetric measurements I noticed a fluctuation in the TDS of the end product. Mostly it stayed around 150ppm. But sometimes as low as 128. So I stopped using volumetric and started weighing the water. Now it is much more consistent and tastes great!To the producers my suggestion is this, stop using plastic packaging. I'd much prefer a biodegradable package for the packets. I love your product but I equally care for the environment as I do my coffee. And when production of my coffee tools affects climate and environmental concerns, which is being proven to alter coffee growing regions, I'd like more of a progressive stance from the company here. A change in packaging for this would change the star rating I gave to packaging.In the end, I definitely suggest using this if you want consistent results in your coffee. You'll thank yourself with consistent cups.

Easy to use and effective.

I use this in combination with RO water and no longer need to descale my machine, with the added benefit of improving the taste of my espresso!

It is hard to evaluate this product objectively.I use RO water and add this additive .My TDS on the RO water is 16. Considering the very hard tap water we have - it’s great. The hardness in our RO water is 0.When adding the third wave - hardness goes up, obviously, due to the addition of Mg and Ca. and TDS goes to 130-150.The pH of the new solution is 6.7, not ideal but acceptable. The only issue I have is the alkalinity: we shoot towards 40, but with the sticks I use, I can’t tell if it’s 0,40 or anywhere in between.I also noticed that the pH of the solution tends to rise toward 7+ over time...Taste: I think that there are so many variables in each shot I pull : distribution, tamping, room temperature, humidity etc- very difficult to say what is the relative contribution of this additive to my water.I am hoping that the added Mg is helping with the flavour extraction...., and that this solution is safe for my espresso machine( LMLM).Summary : overpriced for sure, very convenient though, seems safe ( per la Marzocco people) and sometimes when I do a good job, coffee tastes like heaven!😊

If you're a chemist, there are cheaper ways of accomplishing the same thing. However, if you just want easy and convenient, this is for you. I dump one pouch into a gallon of Crystal Geyser water and the powder is so fine it dissolves immediately. I could taste the difference when using the analogous product for pour over, but with espresso I honestly cannot taste a difference. For me it's all about not creating a ton of scale in an expensive espresso machine. Fingers crossed that it lives up to that promise.

Upped the flavour profile of my espresso on my NEW RANCILIO SILVIA X PRO!! ❤️❤️❤️

I'll be honest, I was honestly a little skeptic about a product like Third Wave Water and if it would really make that big of a difference to the taste and clarity of my coffee. Long story short, I now have a subscription for this product through Amazon. The point of Third Wave Water is it is the perfect mix of minerals to add to distilled water for making coffee. Having done a side-by-side comparison of coffee made with filtered water and a brew made with Third Wave Water, the difference is almost night and day. The filtered water coffee wasn't necessarily bad, but there is a clarity in the flavour profile of the coffee made with Third Wave Water that is truly incredible. If you are like me and enjoy buying and brewing coffee from speciality roasters and really want to get everything you can out of the beans, Third Wave Water will not disappoint you. Truly a game changer.

Highly recommend to use for your light roasts. I end up splitting the pack into 2 4L jugs. Take 100ml for each big jug, pour 1 pack into that 200ml container - give it a good shake up or mix. Add the 100ml back to each jug. 1/2 strength of this stuff if perfect for me. I thought about Lotus drops or Apax but this is just so much easier.

Saw this product on Shark Tank - the sharks said nobody would ever buy jugs of distilled water and put this powder into it just to put into their coffee machine - they were wrong.I have this product on auto order, I buy gallons of distilled water and have been doing it for years.The coffee is less acidic and less bitter, and far more flavourful.Moreover, whenever someone new comes over they always comment about how the coffee is incredible and ask what coffee I'm buying. They leave with 1 jug of distilled water and 1 sachet of the powderand almost every time, they have also become a regular buyer and user.I should really get a commission by now lolMy only gripe is the cost - it is pretty expensive given what you getBut otherwise it works as advertised, makes the coffee delicious, and even unknowing guests comment about the coffee until I tell them the secret.If you want to try and make your coffee better - this is the thing.

I purchased distilled water at Walmart for $1.17 a gallon then I added the third wave water and make my coffee. Much cleaner taste, the coffee tasted better u don't think I'll ever go back