In order for tea or coffee to reveal their true taste and benefits, it is very important to choose the right water for them. We share all the subtleties.


How to brew tea and coffee properly, and how water affects their taste


Water greatly affects the taste of the main hot drinks that we regularly drink - tea and coffee. Even in ancient China, they said: "Tea and water complement each other, so the ability to taste and understand water is more important than the ability to taste and understand tea."


Poorly selected water:

  • able to add bitterness to the drink;
  • completely distort its taste or completely reduce it to a minimum;
  • make it harmful.

The right water helps tea leaves and coffee beans open up, accentuating their aroma and flavor, preserving their benefits, and even enhancing them.

How do you find one? And how to brew your favorite drinks correctly so that they become perfect?

How to brew tea correctly


  1. This is one of the oldest drinks in the world. Its brewing in China is a whole ritual. But even if you shorten the procedure, it is still worth considering a few rules for real taste and benefit:
  2. Pick up the kettle. It should be earthenware or porcelain, but thick-walled.
  3. Pour boiling water over the inside of the kettle before brewing. Only then can you pour tea inside.
  4. Choose the correct brewing temperature. Green, white and some red varieties are brewed with water at a temperature of 70-80 degrees, steep boiling water is detrimental to their taste and benefits (remove the water from the heat as soon as you see the first bubbles). But black varieties can be brewed with water at a temperature of 90-100 degrees.
  5. The first infusion must be drained off immediately (to wash off the tea dust).
  6. The maximum next brewing time is 30 seconds. Some varieties can be brewed several times, gradually the time can be increased to a minute. Black tea can be brewed for 5-10 minutes.
  7. Tea can be poured with cold water, then it needs to be infused for 3 hours.


How to brew coffee correctly

In this case, there is no such ritual as tea, but it has its own subtleties:


  1. Ideally, the coffee itself should be fresh. Do not buy it for future use in very large packages, this quickly loses its taste and aroma. If you buy coffee beans, grind the portion just before drinking.
  2. Flush cooking equipment with hot water. Every time before preparing a new cup. Coffee leftovers from the previous time can make the new drink bitter.
  3. Use the correct proportion of coffee and water. For 180 ml of water, 1-2 tbsp should be used. spoons, but you can slightly vary the amount to taste.
  4. Watch the right temperature. It is necessary to brew coffee with water of 92-25 degrees, not with boiling water, it can reduce the taste of the drink. Too cold water will prevent the coffee from opening. If you cannot drink it right away, ideally you should keep it warm, but no longer than 15 minutes, otherwise it will taste "burnt".
  5. Control brewing time. In a French press, coffee should be brewed for 2-4 minutes, in a drip coffee maker - no longer than 5 minutes. Espresso should be cooked for half a minute.

How water affects the taste and quality of drinks and how to choose the perfect one

The choice of water is very important for brewing tea and coffee. She can both reveal their taste, and change it completely, how to allow the drink to become useful, and kill all the benefits.

What water should not be used

  1. Boiled. She has already lost some of her nutrients, reheating will destroy them completely, making her almost dead.
  2. Plumbing. Chlorine, rust and other impurities contained in such water will not benefit either the drink or your health.
  3. Tough. It has a high salt content that makes any drink bitter, and a film can appear on the surface of the cup.
  4. Low or high ph. The acidity level also affects the palatability. Too high will reduce them, make tea and coffee tasteless, and too low will impart bitterness.
  5. Distilled. It is free of all salts, and this reduces the taste.

What water should you use
  1. Clean, fresh. Free of foreign substances that could harm.
  2. Soft. It does not affect the taste.
  3. With neutral acidity.

Why not keep perfect water at home just in case you make tea or coffee? Imagine how much better the taste of the drink will become - perhaps you did not even expect that it should be that way.

A combination of all the essential qualities can be found in drinking bottled water. Thus, the still water "Holy Spring" is extracted from artesian wells and will be an excellent base for your tea or coffee. It contains the optimal balance of microelements and salts necessary for a person who will not spoil the taste of drinks, but, on the contrary, will reveal it in the best way. Bottle formats of different sizes will help you choose the most convenient option for your everyday use.