How your water type affects coffee, and what you can do about it

In a previous blog we addressed how water extracts coffee from the coffee beans and how that process affects your coffee. But what about the water itself? Short answer: yes, yes it does.
Your coffee is about 98% water. What type of water you brew your coffee with actually makes a large impact as well.

Do you have soft water? Soft water is essentially how water falls from the sky as rain, and typically only has sodium in it.
And what about hard water? Hard water has a bunch of other minerals, and is generally what happens when rain water passes over ground into our waterways, and tends to have large amounts of calcium and magnesium.