Water for brewing at home Coffee

I recently read a thread on /r/coffee about mineralization of filtered water affecting extraction. So this morning I tried using tap water (blasphemous, I know) in our Bonavita drip unit, and there was a significant improvement in flavor compared to the filtered water I had been using from our refrigerator.

I then learned that my wife, unbeknownst to me, had been using tap water all along which explains why I preferred the taste of her pourover (I assumed it was because she had better, more patient technique) and why I have been slowly inching up on our grind settings to get more flavor.

I'm not ready to buy and store spring water just for brewing coffee. Other suggestions? Anyone else have a similar experience?

Submitted January 25, 2016 at 10:11PM by skullcutter http://ift.tt/1NvquOX Coffee