Classic Light Roast For Brewing The Best Coffee, Classic Profile, 12 Single Gallon Sticks, As Seen On Shark Tank

Can't recommend this enough it keeps my machine happy and my espresso tasty!

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!

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.

For what it's worth, I almost rated this much, much lower. My water at home is egregiously hard and makes even my favorite coffees taste like trash water. Brita water fares only slightly better, and spring water is too varied and unreliable for long-term solutions. Coffee Reddit swears by the remineralization of distilled water, and these packets are touted as the simplest method. My first experience with them was not good. While my coffee didn't taste like garbage, it was very dull tasting—like drinking a coffee while suffering from the common cold. Despite being catered towards lighter roast coffees, this product makes water a bit too hard still to properly extract the fruit-like acidity of many light roast coffees—particularly those from East Africa. It took some experimenting, but ultimately I was able to find a way to make Third Wave Water work for my coffee and my taste buds. For more acidic and "wild flavored" coffees, like those from Ethiopia or Kenya, I use about 60% - 70% Third Wave Water and 30% - 40% straight distilled water to lower the overall hardness and accommodate that fruity acidity. For light-medium or medium roast coffees, particularly those from central or south America with more chocolate/caramel/nutty flavors, you can use it at nearly full strength. Like I said, it takes a little bit of trial and error to fit your personal tastes, but I enjoy how simple this makes the water portion of coffee. $18 makes 12 gallons of water which will last an insane amount of time if you, like me, make smaller cups (8oz.) and dilute to fit your taste. Despite my initial impressions, I am actually impressed and will keep using these moving forward.

Wanting to take my homebrewing to the next level, I started using third wave packets on the suggestion of a local roaster. I was skeptical, and tested it against several other waters. All in all I compared: Third Wave classic profile Purified drinking bottled water Fiji natural spring bottled water Brita filtered water tap water I used a light roasted natural processed Columbian bean with roaster's notes of "raspberry, lime, cherry cordial", or in other words, fruity and acidic. I used the same manual pourover recipe with Kalita Wave for each water type. Overall the Third Wave packet mixed into a gallon of distilled water produced the best results and it really wasn't close. The cup had great vibrancy, acidity, fruitiness, and clarity of flavor. The Brita filtered tap water was the 2nd best, the cup had fair amounts of vibrancy and acidity, but really lacked any clear and distinguished fruity characteristics; it just tasted like a good acidic cup of coffee. In summary, third wave packets have basically ruined all other water for my coffee brewing at home. It's not the most affordable option (about $2.30 per gallon of water) but I mean we're also buying $20-30 twelve ounce bags of beans. Did we really get into specialty coffee to pinch pennies? If you want to take your coffee at home to the next level, and you enjoy dynamic light or medium roasted single origin beans, I'd recommend giving this a try.

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

I mixed this per the instructions with distilled water. It has a pH buffer that effectively reduces acidity but the result is an unbalanced espresso that is salty and way too thick. Espresso is already a thick beverage so making it even thicker is like tone on tone: it’s unbalanced, heavy. This might go unnoticed in milk drinks but it’s not very tasty as a straight 1:2 espresso. The saltiness gives a false impression of minerality and while the salt may play well with the sugars of milk (the espresso was still too salty for me diluted 1:1 with milk), it’s overwhelming in a straight espresso. There are possibilities here. I was optimistic and really wanted to try this for remote tastings where we all start with the same water, but this formulation isn't right for me. Edit: My tastes adjusted to the ‘Espresso’ formulation after going through a gallon of it but I feel the ‘Classic’ profile is better. It’s generally less assertive. I want to taste the coffee not the water. I’ll probably continue to use the ‘Classic’ profile. I don’t recall if the company makes any claims about using these sachets for tea but as a tea somme I can say that good teas don’t have the pH issues that specialty coffees have. A better solution for tea would be to use a natural spring water with a low to moderate TDS and unobtrusive flavor.

Easy to use and effective.

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 powder and almost every time, they have also become a regular buyer and user. I should really get a commission by now lol My only gripe is the cost - it is pretty expensive given what you get But 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