This August I’ll be judging the Water Choice Awards, a new water competition hosted by The Daily Pour. If your brand hasn’t entered yet, check out the website – entries are due June 30, 2026! The post Water Brands: Enter the Water Choice Awards first appeared on Alcademics .
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In my water tasting classes in San Francisco, I noticed that Saratoga water’s total dissolved solids jumped from around 40ppm TDS to about 100ppm. In the class we measure TDS by using a low-end TDS meter. The change came between one bottle (glass) and the next batch I bought (in plastic). I was wondering if […] The post Saratoga Water’s Changing Sources first appeared on Alcademics .
Amanda Paul wrote a review of one of my Water Tasting Classes in San Francisco, for The Daily Pour. The Daily Pour will be sponsoring a water judging called the Water Choice Awards later this year. I quickly realized our host was one of those rare people who moves through the world like an almanac, […] The post A Review of my Water Tasting Classes in The Daily Pour first appeared on Alcademics .
Soleil Ho, the former SF Chronicle restaurant critic, attended one of my Water Tasting Classes in San Francisco and wrote up an awesome review of it for Coyote Media. The class was a particularly fun session, with two very opinionated bartenders in attendance. I don’t usually consider water in my daily life. I drink good […] The post A Review of my Water Tasting Class in Coyote Media first appeared on Alcademics .
