Water Systems for Coffee

When excellent coffee is your goal, it’s imperative that you control the variable that makes up 98% of coffee beverages — water. It’s all about quality and consistency.

OptiPure’s goal is to help you make the best decision about water filters and treatment systems that will help give you great coffee and protect your equipment. Understanding your water quality is the most important thing to consider. Water chemistry changes seasonally and geographically, from one location to another. Four contaminants that can cause expensive equipment problems and interfere with coffee quality and consistency are:

1. Sediment — collect in equipment, clogging parts and serving as a catalyst for scale build-up.
2. Chlorine, Taste & Odor — offensive tastes and contributes to corrosion in equipment.
3. Hardness (Scale) — build-up in equipment reduces efficiency and damages equipment.
4. Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) — all minerals that are dissolved in water including hardness minerals. High TDS increases corrosion potential and can be responsible for off-taste in beverages.

Be sure to refer to your equipment’s manual to determine flow requirements to select the right water treatment system for your application.

To learn more about these contaminants, go to our Resources tab or select one of the highlighted boxes below.