Icelandic Glacial water

If you don't think I'm serious about sourcing, I'm here to prove you wrong. This past October, I journeyed to the Nordic country of Iceland. If you're unsure, it's the little island hanging out just to the east of Greenland. While there, we stayed in a couple of picturesque cottages in the countryside, amongst stout horses and wooly sheep. We quickly learned that the hot water comes from volcanic fissures (and tends to smell like sulphur) and the cold water comes from glacier melt springs. So the hot water is really hot and the cold water is really cold. But tasty. 

After a pretty magical experience and a long-ish flight back to the US, we sat down at an airport restaurant and discovered a bottle of Icelandic Glacial water sitting right there on our table. We'd left Iceland, but its water had followed us home. So I reached out to the company, and now we're selling their water right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

If you're into water, you already know that all water is different. Not just in substance, but also in taste. This one comes in at a pH of 8.4 (which provides a good balance to the acidity in coffee, if you're using it for brewing) and a tds of 62ppm (which provides an interesting taste, but its purity could lead to underextraction in the brew, unless you tighten your grind a bit or heat the water a bit more than usual). I was a bit hesitant about selling another water in plastic bottles, but this one is BPA-free, and apparently most microplastics come from industrial pollution seeping into our groundwater. Since there's no heavy industry in Iceland, the water is certifiably free of contaminants. See here. It's a full liter, meaning you'll need about 83 grams of coffee if you're brewing at a 1:12 ratio (62g for 1:16).

Give it a try. Then recycle.