Gerolsteiner – Sparkling Mineral Water
/It has a pleasant mineral water taste, very subtle, really. I could drink this all day… but can you drink too many minerals? Probably. Also, you’d be spoiled. It is good though, and the bottle is nice. If I was a rich guy, and someone did my shopping, I’d probably keep some of this stocked at all times and drink a bottle of it every couple of days of so. Maybe one a day, if I thought those minerals were doing me some good. Of course, with all the water out there, I hope to find mineral and flavored water that I like as much, or even more. And aren’t things more exciting when they aren’t every day—day in and day out? If you brushed your teeth only a couple of times a week, it might be more fun and exotic. Just had another glass and—I really like this water. It’s making me rethink the whole flavored water thing—maybe I should quit messing around with fruity this and vanilla that, and just drink G-Steiner, and/or what other fine mineral waters I can obtain without too much drama.
Gerosteiner is a German mineral water—it springs out of the ground somewhere in Germany, and they direct it into these nice, glass bottles (I believe they add the carbonation), and then it’s shipped across the ocean, here and there. That’s a lot of different vehicles, and loading and unloading… for explosive liquid… in glass bottles. It kind of makes me think of that movie, Sorcerer (1977). So… it should cost like hundreds of dollars a bottle—yet… it’s quite reasonable. So, really, I should be drinking this every day—just because of the opportunity. Also, nice, being in the glass bottle with a screw-on top, see, so you can close it without drinking all of it—since it’s kind of a lot for one sitting, sometimes—it contains 25.3 ounces (750 ml) which is, in liquor terms, a “fifth,” more or less. That’s a very deliberate size. If you’re drinking schnapps, when you get to the bottom of the bottle, you know it’s time to call it a night. Unless you’re drinking peach schnapps, in which case you’ve crossed the line simply by opening the bottle, and there’s very little on Earth or in Heaven that’s going to get you out of that mess.
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