Jon Drinks Water #4000 Icelandic Glacial VS Summit Spring Raw Water VS Starkey Spring Water

"Jon Drinks Water #4000 Icelandic Glacial VS Summit Spring Raw Water VS Starkey Spring Water" is a water-comparison tournament video from Jon Drinks Water, episode #4000 of the series.

Featured waters

Icelandic Glacial, Starkey Spring Water, Summit Springs Raw Water (Summit Spring).

Winner: Starkey Spring Water.

What Jonathan decided

Starkey = winner (round five); Summit Springs = 2nd; Icelandic Glacial = 3rd

Icelandic Glacial

I called it the clear winner against Eternal, which I found a little dirty and plasticky. It then won rounds three and four before finishing third in round five behind Starkey and Summit Springs. In #8996 it was judged on bottle design only, and I never tasted it there.

About Icelandic Glacial

Icelandic Glacial comes from the Olfus Spring in Hlidarendi, Iceland, formed over 4,500 years ago and shielded by lava rock. Founded in 2004 by Jon Olafsson, it is bottled at a geothermally powered facility and was the world's first CarbonNeutral-certified bottled water. Naturally alkaline at pH 8.4, it won Best Water of 2007 from BevNET. Anheuser-Busch InBev took a 20% stake in 2007 and became its exclusive US distributor.

Starkey Spring Water

This was one of the great tournament runs. Starkey won five straight comparisons, including round 6 in the 5,000th episode, where he gave it ten thumbs up and had already predicted it might make the finals. In the #9000 final it finished runner-up to Hawaiian Springs, with Table Rock third.

About Starkey Spring Water

Starkey comes from an ancient single-source geothermal spring in Council, Idaho, rising from two miles deep through basalt fractures, protected for 11,000 years. It emerges at 132 degrees, is treated with UV light only, and has a pH of 9.6. It is sold at Whole Foods nationwide in glass and BPA-free PET.

Summit Springs Raw Water (Summit Spring)

This was one of his all-time favorites. He rated it 9.9 out of 10, gave it two thumbs up, and it marched through round after round before Starkey finally stopped it in round five.

About Summit Springs Raw Water (Summit Spring)

Summit Spring comes from a free-flowing surface spring on Summit Hill in Harrison, Maine, one of the oldest known springs in North America. In 2009 it launched RAW WATER, the first spring water bottled straight from the source with no filtration, no treatment, no pumps, no boreholes, after Maine granted an unprecedented waiver. The president only draws the 38 gallons per minute that naturally surface. About five bucks a bottle, and he once got twelve bottles from the president himself.