20 January 2009
Better Bitter Bottle Water
Posted by admin under: Equipment .
Sarah over at Trail Cooking & The Outdoors has a review of the Guyot Designs TapGuard which is basically an add-on for your Nalgene bottle to filter the water as you’re drinking it to take out bad taste that may remain from purification chemicals.
It is made of flexible food grade silicone (same stuff that baking pans are made of these days!) and comes with two active carbon filters. All one does is wash the TapGuard and then run a filter under water for a minute to get it activated. Then simply pop the filter in its hole in the TapGuard, shut the bottom and insert into your bottle. And you are done. You can add more water through the top without pulling it out, one side has an opening for water to pour down into the bottle.
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So why consider getting one you might ask? What grabbed me was I could make my water taste better. The problem I have with water in the backcountry is I take great tasting water and then add MicroPur or Aquamira to it…..and it tastes/smells like a swimming pool. Not a good thing, especially in cold temperatures outside, the smell just doesn’t go away. So my testing is to see how well the charcoal removes the taste. So far, so good. It also slows down the water coming out so you don’t get the old cup of water pouring over you
It doesn’t treat your water – that needs to be noted – but it can make the treated water taste better!
Right after she was excited to gain this new toy it jumped out of her pack and ran down the mountain. Dang! Well, at least she was able to give us her opinion to start with and it sounds like she feels it’s worth buying again.
- Better Bottle Biography
- More Junkie Junk
- SteriPEN and Filtering
- Backpack Pancakes
- Instant? Um, well, No
