Seltzer, Club Soda, Carbonated Water, Soda Water: What's the Difference? Which One Tastes Better?

Carbonated water has many names, like seltzer, club soda and sparkling mineral water. So what is the difference? But more importantly, which one tastes the best?

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[thechadwick]

Fantastic video and thank you for citing to empirical research! The fact that you produce such high quality informative content and back it up with historical and contemporary data, for anyone to watch, is a true public service! Beverage MVP right here!

[Colesefff]

I immediately thought I was getting a bartending lesson from Charlie Sheen

[norcalcarnivores]

Wife and I were just talking about this yesterday. Great timing!

[MartinDoudoroffLLC]

This was great! Sorted some longstanding questions of mine.

[letoatreides]

Not a question but as a German I always found it funny that we have a law which strictly governs all of the different water types. Soda water for example has to be a artificially carbonated and has to have at least 570 mg/g of added Sodium bicarbonate.

The law basically translates to "Ordinance on natural mineral water, spring water and table water (Mineral and Table Water Ordinance)". May this comment help with the algorithm.

[аминИсмаилов-ои]

I love your chanel ❤️.. very informative.and you pro.and clear

[Themata]

Thankyou! Was doing my head in trying to work out the differences, and club soda kept popping up and throwing me off 😂

[shatteredmatrixincorporate]

I always send my new bartenders to you for some material reference.

[McRootbeer]

Do you have any plans to make a video on electrolyte powders? I got a free sample of LMNT once and liked it. But not enough to pay $1.00+ a packet.

[rw-xfcb]

How to make a DIY Borjomi would it just be mixing the percentage of calcium, magnesium, salt with soda stream water?

[justinwiechman]

Do you happen to know what the carbonation volumes of redbull uses. I’m guessing around 3 ??? Or what typical energy drinks are carbonation volume wise?

[pudellvr]

When I was in London recently I had some naturally sparkling mineral water that had large "lazy" bubbles. It was so pleasant compared to the frequently harsh bubbles of mineral water that had added carbonation. Is there a way to get the large lazy carbonation w manmade carbonation?

[CascadesHomebrew]

Enjoying the content. One thing in this video that I found a little confusing was your use of the terms salt and salty. Sometimes it was not clear if you were talking about the more general scientific use of salt, or more specifically sodium chloride (aka "salt") and the taste that is often described as "salty." BTW, I saw a forum post asking about Root Beer and I checked your channel for content. Is a discussion on Root Beer and similar drinks on your radar?

[mr-vet]

Perrier, Guitig, Topo Chico….How do they rate?

[McRootbeer]

Is it safe to use regular baking soda to mineralize water? I've heard it may have heavy metal contamination but haven't looked into it.

[lesliecaplan]

our bar has a soda water machine from coke vendor with a co2 tank. Our landlord won't let us have it anymore. We tried seltzer water to replace it to make our craft specialty cocktails and it changes the taste. Trie sparking water too and it changed the taste. Nothing so far has been as good as the coke soda machines water that comes out of our soda gun. What do we use? I'm so stressed about it. How to replicate soda water that comes out a coke machine attached to co2 tank with a water gun.

[danielbrillantes]

Does salt play a part in the carbonation of drinks? like does the carbonation last longer if the water has salts compared to no salts?

[allen_steel]

What about Fiji water, that has a distinct volcanic sulfur dioxide smell? And then you have all of the so-called mountain spring waters that are sold across the United States alhambra, arrowhead, Shasta are some of the big ones here in California yet all the bottles will say that the water is produced through reverse osmosis from Municipal Water Supplies but then they will go through Great Lengths to tell you that it's bottled at the source and show you a location somewhere up on a mountain. Does that mean they're just putting a few drops of that water in with the Municipal Water that's been filtered? Or is it some other proprietary thing because I know for a fact that the sunny water which is sold by pepsi. Is nothing more than Municipal drinking water ran through reverse osmosis it has as they put it for priority flavoring added to enhance taste. Which I'm assuming are more of the salt compounds.

[аминИсмаилов-ои]

Deionization of the water is recommended?

[johnhearn]

Why does Topo Chico taste so much better than any other sparkling mineral water?