Coffee Recipe Water Compared — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:26i think
3. 0:26a fun one today a nice little comparison
4. 0:28review because there's been more of
5. 0:30these kind of products popping up and i
6. 0:32just want to know myself
7. 0:33how they compare how they differ now if
8. 0:35you're not familiar with what you're
9. 0:36seeing
10. 0:37here's the deal these four products are
11. 0:39from four different companies and
12. 0:40they're aiming to solve the problem of
13. 0:42which water should i bring my coffee
14. 0:43with because we know
15. 0:45the water you brew with has a big impact
16. 0:47and often fixing that can be
17. 0:49difficult frustrating the idea here is
18. 0:52that they
19. 0:52sell the perfect ratio of minerals that
20. 0:55you then add to distilled
21. 0:57pure water and then you've got the end
22. 0:59of it
23. 1:00perfect water for coffee and i know i
24. 1:02say perfect because there's no such
25. 1:03thing but i also say perfect because
26. 1:05everyone here
27. 1:05kind of seems to be talking about
28. 1:06perfect to some extent let's get into
29. 1:08what we've got on the table
30. 1:10now first up is third wave water i would
31. 1:12say probably the pioneers in this space
32. 1:14correct me if i'm wrong now as
33. 1:15disclosure third wave of water has
34. 1:17supported the world's largest coffee
35. 1:19tasting twice with free product that
36. 1:20we've then passed on
37. 1:22it's meant that anyone taking part in a
38. 1:23tasting around the world can be using
39. 1:25exactly the same water and therefore
40. 1:27having
41. 1:27as close to the same experience as
42. 1:29possible now this is their classic
43. 1:30profile and this is i think shipped just
44. 1:33for europe
45. 1:34because the sizing is different these
46. 1:36are little sachets and this goes into
47. 1:37two liters it's a metric dosage
48. 1:39for which i'm very grateful uh because
49. 1:42in the uk and in europe
50. 1:43we don't have access to gallons of water
51. 1:46literally we can't buy a gallon of water
52. 1:48in a shop
53. 1:49very easily if at all it's all metric so
54. 1:51you can buy like five liters
55. 1:52or one liter but not a gallon
56. 1:55so this is for two liters which i i do
57. 1:57quite like now third wave water do other
58. 1:59profiles too they do an
59. 2:00uh espresso profile and a dark roast
60. 2:02profile this is the classic
61. 2:04and so that's what we're going to be
62. 2:05testing today next up is a different
63. 2:08approach this is gc water uh this is
64. 2:09their perfect
65. 2:10cup formula wait did the third wave say
66. 2:12perfect anywhere no use of the word
67. 2:13perfect we'll decide if that's a bonus
68. 2:15or not later
69. 2:16now this is a different approach which
70. 2:17is interesting this is not a powder
71. 2:19like the third reporter this is two
72. 2:22little droppers of liquid so the idea
73. 2:25here is you put one milliliter of each
74. 2:27one and
75. 2:27the metric usage is noted there uh of a
76. 2:31and b into a gallon of water and then
77. 2:32you've got a perfect combination of
78. 2:34minerals i will say from a usability
79. 2:36perspective
80. 2:37the little droppers on here have been a
81. 2:39bit annoying this was quite easy you
82. 2:40just tear open pour the sachet in
83. 2:42here you can see on here there's little
84. 2:44markings for
85. 2:45sort of how much liquid you should be
86. 2:47sort of using and you can see there's a
87. 2:49one milliliter line there the
88. 2:50frustrating thing is you can't squeeze
89. 2:52enough air out of the dropper if i
90. 2:54squeeze everything out
91. 2:56really to get more than 0.75 so that's
92. 2:58just that's just not a very well chosen
93. 3:00dropper from my perspective
94. 3:01i did a 0.75 and then 0.25 which was
95. 3:04just awkward
96. 3:05just let me get a milliliter and then
97. 3:06here we've got coffee brewing water from
98. 3:08aqua code no use of the word perfect
99. 3:10which is good
100. 3:11as far as i can tell so these work in
101. 3:12metric which i do appreciate but they're
102. 3:14for seven
103. 3:15liters right it's a six male sachet for
104. 3:18seven liters of water and i don't know
105. 3:20why it's seven liters that's such an odd
106. 3:23size i can buy five
107. 3:24i can buy one but why why seven so
108. 3:27mixing this was a little bit difficult
109. 3:28in the end
110. 3:29i weighed the contents of a sachet and
111. 3:32then very carefully took half of it out
112. 3:33and put into three and a half liters of
113. 3:35water
114. 3:37just because that's much more practical
115. 3:38to me than trying to do seven when i
116. 3:39don't have a seven liter container
117. 3:41and i've never seen a seven liter
118. 3:42container anyway and then on the end
119. 3:44here
120. 3:45perfect coffee water now there's not a
121. 3:46lot of innovation around the names here
122. 3:48we've got
123. 3:49coffee brewing water we've got perfect
124. 3:51coffee water we've got perfect cup
125. 3:54water and then third wave water so
126. 3:56points are supposed to third wave for
127. 3:57standing out at that front these are
128. 3:59sachets again and each sachet here does
129. 4:02one gallon of water
130. 4:03frustratingly but i can work with a
131. 4:05gallon they do a version that does
132. 4:06five gallons if you've got one of those
133. 4:08giant sort of things i guess you can buy
134. 4:10five gallon
135. 4:11tanks in the us maybe i guess but uh one
136. 4:14gallon is what we used here
137. 4:15so that was kind of nice these are
138. 4:17options but how are they different
139. 4:18because
140. 4:19none of them really give up their secret
141. 4:21sauce right like none of them will tell
142. 4:22you what their composition is
143. 4:23perhaps because making your own water is
144. 4:26quite easy if you're willing to source
145. 4:28deionized water and do all that then
146. 4:30actually to do a home brewed version
147. 4:32is relatively easy but if you don't want
148. 4:34to do that these are the options that
149. 4:35are out there so instead of doing
150. 4:36testing all that kind of stuff what i
151. 4:38thought would be more interesting
152. 4:39is to do a taster comparison so here's
153. 4:41how it's gonna work i've got
154. 4:42three different roasts here i've got a
155. 4:44light roast a medium roast and a dark
156. 4:46roast what we did here is we used a zero
157. 4:48water filter right which actually strips
158. 4:50everything out of your water back to
159. 4:51pretty much zero i just find that easier
160. 4:54than going and buying a ton of deionized
161. 4:55water and a
162. 4:56cheaper too so brand new filter in there
163. 4:59stripped back to zero and all of these
164. 5:00were then
165. 5:01made up these have since been randomized
166. 5:03or
167. 5:04turned blind for me so they've gone into
168. 5:05like an abcd
169. 5:07situation so i don't know which of the
170. 5:08waters is which now what'll happen is
171. 5:10that for
172. 5:11each of the roasts we're gonna brew with
173. 5:13each of the waters
174. 5:14so there's gonna be three groups of
175. 5:16tasting a light a medium and a dark
176. 5:18and then randomized within those will be
177. 5:20all of these waters
178. 5:21and we'll see how each of them performs
179. 5:23at different roast levels now we're
180. 5:24going to be using the cupping method a
181. 5:25straight infusion brew i figured that's
182. 5:27the easiest way to remove as many
183. 5:28variables as possible and just taste the
184. 5:30water coffee
185. 5:32interaction so as you can see we're kind
186. 5:34of brewing in batches here so when it is
187. 5:35time for tasting c
188. 5:36d will be marginally hotter there's
189. 5:38about four minutes gap between their
190. 5:39brewing times
191. 5:40which as they cool down won't really
192. 5:42matter that much but i don't know what
193. 5:43you see which is d
194. 5:44i don't know which is a which is b in
195. 5:46those kind of group tastings so i will
196. 5:47be as blind as blind can be
197. 5:50and what i'm looking for are kind of
198. 5:52trends across the different roast levels
199. 5:54right if the same
200. 5:55water performs in a very similar way it
201. 5:58affects acidity in a very similar way or
202. 6:00it affects
203. 6:00sort of a bitterness a very similar way
204. 6:03that's sort of notable
205. 6:04and what i hope to do with this tasting
206. 6:07is give you advice about with the
207. 6:08preference that you have for roast or
208. 6:10coffee flavor
209. 6:11which water might be the water for you
210. 6:13if you're looking for one of these as a
211. 6:15solution to coffee bring water at home
212. 6:17time i think pretty much to break and
213. 6:19clean these ones
214. 6:20and then we'll do a little
215. 6:21redistribution and make life as
216. 6:23difficult as possible for me
217. 6:25so i don't know what's going on so i'm
218. 6:26just going to taste my way through this
219. 6:27i'm going to start with the light roast
220. 6:29grouping first
221. 6:30medium dark there'll be a slurp but
222. 6:33let's not
223. 6:34just have a lot of slurps that might get
224. 6:35a little bit too much so uh
225. 6:38here's your first one oh we go first
226. 6:41impression is tasting this group what
227. 6:42what's
228. 6:43defining the differences is acidity
229. 6:45that's kind of interesting the
230. 6:46differences don't feel quite as profound
231. 6:48in the medium roast group so i'm kind of
232. 6:50interested to see how the dark roast
233. 6:52group will be
234. 6:53i can't tell the difference between
235. 6:55these ones
236. 6:56it's really hard down this end to pick
237. 6:58them apart i think it's time for some
238. 6:59results
239. 7:00i will talk through my preferences i'm
240. 7:02not going to say these ones are best
241. 7:04it'll be interesting to see how
242. 7:05different ones perform at different
243. 7:06stages
244. 7:07so i've pushed forward the furthest the
245. 7:09one i liked the most so in this case
246. 7:10this is the one i liked the best
247. 7:12then this one and then these two sort of
248. 7:14equal third place and same again here i
249. 7:16like this one best
250. 7:17then this one and these two equal third
251. 7:19place it's interesting that the pattern
252. 7:20matches
253. 7:21so it's highly unlikely that this is the
254. 7:23same winner across both
255. 7:24on the dark roasts it was really really
256. 7:27hard to pick them apart
257. 7:28and this one was slightly less bitter
258. 7:31very slightly sweeter but
259. 7:33really astonishing to me actually how
260. 7:36similar they were
261. 7:37in the cup or potentially how broken my
262. 7:39palate was at this point
263. 7:40another option and it's really hard i
264. 7:42think in a tasting to jump between
265. 7:44roasts because a big part of your
266. 7:45tasting experience is
267. 7:46contrast so when you go from say medium
268. 7:49rise to a dark that first dark
269. 7:51taste that you get seems dark than it is
270. 7:53right it seems more intensely bitter
271. 7:55much harsher
272. 7:56compared to this but as you compare to
273. 7:58sort of more similar bowls
274. 8:00you know the tasting gets closer in a
275. 8:02funny way let me just uh
276. 8:04lock in my my preference this bowl here
277. 8:06it just had a bit more balance of acid
278. 8:08and sweet
279. 8:09and then it became increasingly sort of
280. 8:11acid dominant so here
281. 8:13a little zingier zippier they both have
282. 8:15really nice fruit from the coffee
283. 8:16present
284. 8:16then these two again just a bit zippier
285. 8:18still just a good amount of zing if you
286. 8:20like
287. 8:20a fresh crisp acidity in your coffees
288. 8:22then i think you'd really like this
289. 8:24i like more of a sweet acid balance and
290. 8:26so this one
291. 8:27stood out for me as being just very
292. 8:29enjoyable similarly here
293. 8:31it's a little jump up in acid from this
294. 8:32to this this is again a bit more sweeter
295. 8:34a bit more balanced for this roast level
296. 8:36and then these two
297. 8:37this one's a little flatter generally
298. 8:39and this one
299. 8:40is kind of just a bit tangier i'm not
300. 8:42sorry i would prefer one over the other
301. 8:43they are
302. 8:44quite different though which is
303. 8:45interesting and then this one
304. 8:47was just not quite as bad as the others
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343. 9:50this video time for the reveal and it's
344. 9:52gonna be like a weird double reveal
345. 9:54because i don't know what the letters
346. 9:56are yet
347. 9:57so we'll kind of see if any one letter
348. 9:59does better and then we'll find out what
349. 10:00that letter is so
350. 10:02from the light roast letter c
351. 10:05did the best for me followed by letter b
352. 10:09now in this one to win for b so b is
353. 10:12doing
354. 10:13quite well a first and a second and this
355. 10:15one oh this one's a
356. 10:17interesting this was c now that's
357. 10:20interesting
358. 10:20now this felt a little flat in a medium
359. 10:23roast but it felt a bit more balanced
360. 10:24than a light roast i
361. 10:25really can't wait to see what these are
362. 10:27and this one that fell a bit tangier was
363. 10:28d now on this side
364. 10:32d takes a win this is really interesting
365. 10:35okay it's kind of good news actually so
366. 10:37d for me stood out as being a bit more
367. 10:39kind of interesting balanced less bitter
368. 10:41so now i guess we should find out
369. 10:44what's what now i gather that they are
370. 10:47written on the bottom
371. 10:48of the packets so let's find out perfect
372. 10:50coffee water
373. 10:51first one i picked up was b now i think
374. 10:54b had the win over here right so
375. 10:56yes so i would say this tasted really
376. 10:58good with kind of a medium
377. 11:00roast very nice c takes a win
378. 11:03over here c
379. 11:06so c this did really well on the sort of
380. 11:08uh light roast
381. 11:10end of things third wave of water where
382. 11:12a
383. 11:13you know you came second over here
384. 11:16so again very nice in the sort of
385. 11:20um medium roast category which means
386. 11:23that this is d
387. 11:24it is d which is interesting that it did
388. 11:26well in in that sort of darker roast
389. 11:28section
390. 11:29definitely an interesting selection this
391. 11:32for
392. 11:32me would be a contender uh you know what
393. 11:34i mean like i like that it did quite
394. 11:36well at light and kind of more medium
395. 11:37style roasts
396. 11:39uh though i have to say i did like this
397. 11:41that was a really interesting test i
398. 11:42always feel when we talk about water
399. 11:44that we're just kind of dipping a toe
400. 11:45into this enormous subject
401. 11:47but definitely interesting definitely
402. 11:49interesting and if you use one of these
403. 11:52i want to hear from you down in the
404. 11:53comments below why did you pick it how
405. 11:54has your experience been
406. 11:56have you enjoyed using it is it a pain
407. 11:58is it an easy part of your routine
408. 12:00have you tried a few different options
409. 12:02what do you like has it has it fit
410. 12:04your coffee the way that i have
411. 12:06described here
412. 12:08let me know down in the comments below
413. 12:10but for now i'll say thank you so much
414. 12:11for watching
415. 12:12and i hope you have a great day