Does The Coffeemaker Purify My Water?

The short answer is no!JP and I were tweeting back and forth on Twitter about the importance of your source of water when making coffee.  I wrote recently on the different options between top, filtered, and spring and what it means to the flavor of your coffee.  After all, coffee is 99% water so you should use the best water you can.There is some misconception that your source of water isn't important because it's going to be heated through the course of the coffee being brewed.  If you use a standard drip-brewer, the water will never get hot enough to be considered purified, so don't consider the heat of the process to be "cleansing" the water that ends up in your coffee mug.  In fact, consider the quality of that water to be the same at the end of the cycle as what you pour into it (for the most part).