Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water

The internet has discovered a new hobby for people who thought they were already maxed out on food snobbery: custom-blending supermarket bottled water to imitate famous places like Pilsen, Melbourne, and San Francisco for beer, coffee, bread, and even fish tanks. The pitch is wildly simple — buy two bottles, mix them in the right ratio, and suddenly your kitchen is apparently a world tour. Naturally, the comments section turned into the real main event.

A few people were genuinely impressed. One commenter admitted they already notice that different bottled waters taste different, but said this takes things to a whole new level: not just tasting water, but deciding which water is “best” for a recipe. Others were hit with instant existential dread. "Oh great," one person joked, after spending years failing to understand tasting notes in food, coffee, and wine, "now water." That pretty much set the tone.

But the loudest reactions were pure suspicion. One commenter flat-out called it "BS", saying the claims feel too vague to prove. Another said the page had an "obvious AI-written nature" and warned that if the math is wrong, your fancy DIY water profile could be built on vibes. And then came the sneering one-liners: a reader mocked the site’s poetic coffee quote by saying the author had let "something else than coffee do the talking." Ouch.

Still, beneath the roasting was real curiosity. One nostalgic commenter remembered mountain water from childhood as tasting "correct" and wondered how it would compare. So yes, the crowd is divided — half intrigued, half eye-rolling, fully entertained.