This thread will be on reviewing bottled deer Park water. Wait, you think bottled water all tastes the same? Clearly you need to drink more water.
Water Bottle Review No.1
Deer Park Spring Water (500ml bottle)
ID Code (found on the bottom of the bottle): NE 400
Bottled 2022
Springs:
New Tripoli
Foster Twp
Newmanstown
South Coventry
Pine Grove
Hegins
Bangor
Womelsdorg
Bloomsbury
and/or
Oakland
Rating: 9/10 Very good water, very wet and hydrating, and not dry like some other times. Could be a little more mellowed.
Water Bottle Review No.2
Deer Park Spring Water (500ml bottle)
ID Code (found on the bottom of the bottle): NE 423A
Bottled 2022
Springs:
New Tripoli
Foster Twp
Newmanstown
South Coventry
Pine Grove
Hegins
Bangor
Womelsdorg
Bloomsbury
and/or
Oakland
Rating: 6/10. Good at first, but weird sour aftertaste in back of throat. Not very scrumptitious water if I do say so myself. Also I think it puts my teeth on edge a bit.
One thing Ive done in the past was to add about a teaspoon per gallon of sodium bicarbonate.
It acts as a detergent and increases the “wetness” or fluidity of the water. Different mineral contents can increase or decrease this effect to some extent.
I’ve never heard of Deer Park water. There is a suburb of Houston called Deer Park. I thought you were talking about their tap water. As far as bottled water goes, crazy water all the way.
I used to work in the bottled water industry back in the 00’s when it had double digit growth. Wings and beer after work on the company card was a very common occurrence and all of my business travel was pretty cushy.
I could never taste the difference except for the naturally carbonated stuff like Perrier.
I was working at the Ice Mountain plant in Michigan when the Earth Liberation Front was trying to stop the whole operation, including firebombing the pump house at the spring source.
I would try drinking out of the creek by my house, but its very polluted. There’s a lot of iron in it, and its downstream from where a dye factory was. When it was still there, each day you could see a different color (this is what my one Uncle said, anyway). Plus it got tested positive for Legionnaires disease so… Il pass on drinking that one.
All of the brands mentioned so far were all bought up and owned by Nestle decades ago. I think they sold them all to Blue Triton several years ago. I’ve been to most of the bottling plants in the USA and Canada.
All that is really different is the mineral content.
Ice Mountain is bottled in Michigan, where there are no mountains. The main spring source is actually located in a deer park, unlike Deer Park. For thousands of dollars, you can hunt massive mutant trophy bucks in their enclosed ranch.
20+ years ago when the Ice Mountain plant was under a court injunction that limited the amount of water that could be pumped, Nestle actually transported spring water by the tanker truck load from Cabazon, California to Starwood, Michigan. Cabazon is in the freaking desert while Michigan is surrounded by freshwater seas with thousands of lakes.
Without the injunction, all of those cross country trips could have been skipped because there was a pipeline from the spring to the plant. You know, for the environment.
It was all junk science. The water usage was minimal compared to other industries and especially agriculture. 20 years later and the aquifer is still fine.
It was weird because bottled water was singled out as uniquely harmful by the do-gooders, but soda bottling plants, brewers, etc. were not.
I don’t think that one is, but I was unaware that crazy water was even a brand.
For more bottled water adventure stories, a manufacturing defect in the injection and blow molding process once resulted in several million cases produced that had “pinhole leaks” that could only be detected if you squeezed the bottle from the sides, when a tiny jet of water would shoot out.
It was bottled, cased, palletized and warehoused in three pallet high stacks. The defect was discovered when one day the entire structure of bottled water collapsed spectacularly, setting off a big reaction with others soon following.
The business donated some of the bad batch to a local church-affiliated foodbank, but the plant manager personally discovered that they were being sold off at roadside stands so the corrupt pastor could pocket the money. This resulted in me spending an entire day at the local landfill to photograph the destruction of the entire batch with bulldozers. I was surprised at how spongy the ground was at the landfill and the smell wasn’t as bad as I imagined it would be.
Lots of parasites can be found in creeks, lakes and streams. Viruses and bacteria, too, depending on where you are. I only drink unfiltered nature water if it comes straight from a spring. There are a few roadside ones in my part of Maine.
