You like the fact that your Brita water filter improves the taste of your drinking water and you would like to use Brita filtered water in your Keurig coffee maker to make your coffee taste better. But can you use Brita filtered water in your Keurig coffee maker?
You can use Brita filtered water in a Keurig machine. A Brita filter will remove impurities that could affect how well your Keurig coffee maker works, but a Brita filter does not remove all impurities that could damage a Keurig.
In most cases, using Brita filtered water in a Keurig coffee maker will certainly not hurt your Keurig machine. But there may still be impurities in your Brita filtered water that could harm your Keurig coffee maker.
Will Brita Filtered Water Damage My Keurig Coffee Maker?
Water from a standard Brita water filter will only remove some impurities from your drinking water to improve the taste of the water and help to remove unpleasant odors.
There can be many impurities still in your drinking water that could cause damage to your Keurig.
Small amounts of hard minerals like calcium and magnesium can be removed by a Brita water filter but once the Brita filter has removed all of the hard minerals that it can, the remainder of the hard minerals can get through the filter and build up inside of a Keurig machine.
Because a Brita water filter is NOT meant to remove dissolved solids like a reverse osmosis drinking water system would, dissolved solids like sodium will travel through a Brita water filter and could build up inside of a Keurig machine.
A Brita water filter does NOT add anything to your drinking water that would cause any damage to a Keurig machine but it may NOT remove some impurities that could cause damage to a Keurig machine.
Will Brita Filtered Water Make My Keurig Coffee Taste Better?
The primary benefit of using a Brita water filter is to improve the taste of your drinking water by removing chemicals like chlorine from your water which can give water an unpleasant taste.
Because a Brita water filter removes impurities to make your drinking water taste purer, the water produced by a Brita water filter can also improve the taste of your beverages made by a Keurig.
Is Brita Filtered Water Better Than Tap Water For My Keurig?
A Brita water filter will remove many chemicals and other impurities from your tap water which makes it a much better choice to use in a Keurig machine although as per Keurig, any water can be used for their K-Supreme Plus® Smart coffee maker.
In some cases, untreated tap water will work just fine in a Keurig machine, but I recommend that you test your tap water for hard minerals, iron, chlorine, and high amounts of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in your water before using it in your Keurig machine.
How Can I Tell If My Brita Filtered Water Is Safe For My Keurig Coffee Maker?
If you really want to know if your Brita filtered drinking water is free of common impurities that could damage your Keurig, you will need to test the water.
Using a simple water hardness test kit, you can test your Brita water for hard minerals that could build up inside of your Keurig.
If you are concerned about iron in your Brita filtered water, an iron test kit will allow you to see if your Brita water contains iron.
A TDS Meter will test your Brita filtered water to determine if the amount of Total Dissolved Solids is excessively high which could affect the taste of the beverages made by your Keurig and could build up inside of your Keurig machine.
One of the most popular uses for a Brita water filter is to remove chlorine from public water suppliers because of its odor and the bad taste that it leaves in your drinking water.
Or, to make sure that your Brita water is free of all of these impurities, you could get an ALL-IN-ONE test kit that will test for hardness, iron, chlorine, lead, and many more impurities with the exception of Total Dissolved Solids (TDS).
Is There A Better Filter Than Brita For My Keurig Coffee Maker?
A Brita water filter will do a great job of improving the taste and odor of your water so that it will not affect the taste of your Keurig beverages or damage your Keurig machine.
But if you are looking to greatly improve the overall quality of your drinking water, a reverse osmosis drinking water system will produce drinking water that has up to about 98% less dissolved solids in it and it will be ideal for you to use in your Keurig beverage machine.
This article was originally posted on freewateradvice.com on 2/2/2022
To Sum Up!
A Brita water filter will remove impurities from your drinking water that could build up in your Keurig and inhibit the taste and odor of your Keurig beverages.
Using a Brita water filter will not make your drinking water unusable in a Keurig beverage machine but it may improve the overall quality of your Keurig beverages.
A reverse osmosis drinking water system will greatly reduce the amount of Total Dissolved Solids in your drinking water which makes it ideal to use in a Keurig beverage machine.
