Water Filters And Better Tasting Coffee

One of the easiest ways to get better coffee, is to use better water. It’s an easy thing to do, but it’s a step that a lot of people skip.

Coffee has this bad habit of absorbing any odors or flavors that it’s near, including minerals in the water and chlorine many municipalities use to treat their water. Those minerals are what can give your coffee a bad taste.

I have horrible tasting water, it’s extra hard and leaves disgusting calcium stains on my glasses and plates. Last week, I finally got around to buying a water filter and it drastically improved the taste of my coffee. It also made me want to kick myself for not getting it sooner.

I choose to get a water filter because it gets rid of many of the impurities, plus it’s more environmentally friendly than using bottled water.

To filter my water, I bought a Culligan Water Filter (FM-15A) through Amazon for $12.95. It looked nice and simple, plus the price was right.

It made the coffee taste smoother and fresher. As far as the water in general, the taste was a whole lot better afterward and it got rid of the hard water odor.

According to the box, it also reduces the chlorine taste and odor, cuts back on sediments, lead, cysts and a whole bunch other things that sound really bad, but I’ve never heard of before.

The water filter was easy to install. Even with my lack of handyman skills, I had it setup and flowing with clean water in just a few minutes.

The only drawback is that with filter on, it reduces the pressure. It was a annoying at first, but now I let the coffee pot fill up, while I do other parts of the coffee prep. It’s definitely worth the wait for cleaner water and better coffee.

I thought about getting a Brita pitcher, but I’m glad I decided to go with the water filter. I’ve had Britas in the past and the water tastes better with the filter.

My project for later tonight is to clean my coffee pot. A clean coffee pot, pretty much goes along with using a water filter to get better tasting coffee. And of course, I’ll be blogging about it soon.

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Tagged as: Better Coffee, Better Water, Cleaner Water, Culligan Water Filter

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Extreme John May 8, 2009 at 11:35 am: I know that here in cesspool water Florida you must have a water filter, that is of course unless you dont mind your teeth falling out.

Excellent info and thanks for the reminder, I need to change the filter on my refrigerator.

Andrea May 8, 2009 at 1:40 pm: I had no idea how much water affects the way your coffee tastes until I used water from my purifier. WOW, what a difference. I recommend that everyone try to get a decent priced water filter for not only coffee drinking, but everything.

Mike May 8, 2009 at 5:53 pm: Yeah, you pretty much have to use a filter or else….

Nomad May 8, 2009 at 7:33 pm: someone mentioned this recently, the fact that coffee made from chlorine flavored tap water will taste like it… ever since i’ve been noticing how true this is

Handyman in Jacksonville June 15, 2009 at 2:14 pm: Your post is very well crafted and I have learned. I?ve added your blog to my reading material. Thanks for the update!