Using the right water for coffee was one of the best tips I learned from multiple sources in order to improve coffee at home. I live in a place in Italy with extremely hard water, so I have a cleaning filter installed that still leaves a series of minerals. Water is good to drink but not to brew coffee.
The solution I’m using now is bottled water, which works really well except for the fact that buying and wasting plastic isn’t ideal at all
Is there any way to obtain good quality water without having a ton of plastic in my bin? I mean I could buy mineral pills or something but still I’d need first to get demineralised water somehow, most likely bottled. So I don’t know really
I just used tap water, although I did install a whole-home water filter about a year ago, so all the water goes through a pre-filter, a pretty substantial filter with carbon filtration, and then also a water treatment process called TAC (Template Assisted Crystallization) which doesn’t get rid of hard water but makes it easier to clean and remove hard water scales.
I pretty much just make Americanos these days at home, but I have yet to have a better cup from a store and I don’t really buy expensive beans or anything.