Comment by jaggederest

10 hours ago

I make my own mineral water - it's surprisingly straightforward. Make a concentrate of whatever you like, add a bit of it into a carbonation bottle, carbonate it, shake, refrigerate, and either consume sparkling or let it offgas.

You have to carbonate because (at least in my case) the amount of minerals per liter is too much for them to dissolve on their own, but they generally stay in suspension even when degassed

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anewhnaccount2  10 hours ago

Care to share some ratios? Where you get the minerals from? Electrolite mix? Won't it explode everywhere if you shake after carbonation?

  • jaggederest  3 minutes ago

    I buy raw food grade minerals - calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, plus salt, lite salt, epsom salt, baking soda.

    I make about a 40x concentrate (500ml makes 20 liters), I put about 15-20ml in an ~800ml bottle. Make sure you shake it vigorously immediately before use, like literally shake right until you pop the cap off and pour it, or you'll get weak water early and strong water later (it won't dissolve)

    Recipe is something in this ballpark, no need to be especially precious about it, you won't taste minor variation:

        35g CaCO3
    15g MgCO3
    15g NaHCO3
    2g Epsom Salt (MgSO4+7H2O)
    1g Salt (NaCl)
    1g Lite Salt (NaCl + KCl)

    You have to carbonate it very hard using something like a soda stream or a CO2 regulator, need it to go well beyond drinkably fizzy to dissolve the minerals (mostly calcium carbonate)

    It's better to use as cold water as you can get, carbonates are inversely soluble in water based on temperature, so just above freezing (~2C or ~35F), and it'll hold more carbonation.