Fake mineral water

…showing you how to make your own mineral water, more or less

Source water Select your water from list Input the values for your water



Distilled or deionized water Akron Albany Albuquerque Amarillo Atlanta Austin Baltimore Baton Rouge Birmingham Boston Bridgeport Buffalo Charlotte Chattanooga Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Corpus Christi Dallas Dayton Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Erie Evansville Flint Fresno Ft Wayne Ft Worth Gary Grand Rapids Greensboro Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson Jacksonville Jersey City Kansas City Lake Huron Lincoln,NE Long Beach Los Angeles/Aqueduct Los Angeles/Jensen Los Angeles/River Conduit Los Angeles/Weymouth Louisville Lubbock Madison Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Mobile Montgomery Montreal Nashville New Haven New Orleans Newark New York City Catskill water New York City Croton water Norfolk Oakland Oklahoma City Omaha Paterson Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland Providence Richmond Rochester (Hemlock Lake) Rochester (Lake Ontario) Rochester (unspecified source) Rockford Sacramento Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco San Jose Savannah Seattle Shreveport South Bend Spokane Springfield St Louis St Paul St Petersburg Syracuse Tacoma Tampa Toledo Topeka Toronto/Tolt Tucson Tulsa Washington Wichita Worcester Yonkers Zürich





Target water Select bottled water from list Input the values for bottled water



Acqua della Madonna Acqua Panna Aquarel Apollinaris Classic Arvie Badoit Brecon Carreg Bru - Still Budgens Montgomery Spring - Still Buxton Still Chaudfontaine Contrex Courmayeur Cristaline/Aurèle Crystal Geyser Dolomiti Evian Freu H· Gerolsteiner Harrogate Spa Still Hépar (Vittel) Highland Spring Montcalm Mont Roucous Ogeu Orée du Bois L’Oiselle Perrier Pierval Quézac Recoaro La Salvetat San Benedetto San Pelligrino M&S Scottish Still Spa Reine Strathmore Still Tönissteiner Ty Nant Valvert Vauban Vichy Célestins Vichy Saint-Yorre Vittel Volvic Wattwiller YES (Taiwan)





Recipe nothing yet…

Rationale This web application tries to help you approximate the chemical composition, and more importantly, the taste, of your favorite mineral water without the financial outlay, and environmental cost, of using bottled water. You can start with your local tap water or with ion-free (distilled or de-ionized) water.



This is not an attempt to duplicate the whole range of minerals that might conceivably affect the taste of a water, only calcium and magnesium. The nice thing about that limitation is that the materials needed to do this are easily available, in the USA at least, in drugstores: gypsum and Epsom salt.



Note also that if your source water (presumably local tap water) is higher in calcium or magnesium than your target (bottled) water, this web application cannot help you.



Unfortunately, there are some bottled waters whose mineral contents vary so widely that it would be futile to try to approximate them. Waters in this category found so far: Poland Spring.

Finding out a water’s mineral content If you do not find a mineral content entry for your local tap water in the list here, you might find it by a Web search.

Failing that, you might want to have your water tested following suggestions from the BeerSmith Home Brewing Forum. If you do find information on a tap or bottled water that is not available here, please let me know so I can add your data to the site.

Sources for the information in this application Much of the information on USA cities’ tap waters is from The Magnesium Web Site.

Many of the mineral content values for European bottled waters are from Eupedia.

Comments and questions: <perin@acm.org>

Last modified Sep 9 2019