My distilled water started getting a rather funky taste for the first time ever. When I looked inside the boiler I noticed a different kind of sediment, a rather sticky red mess that clung to the sides of the jug. After a thorough cleaning with vinegar and a good rinsing, the water has gone back to its fresh taste. Since your unit is new, it may still be leeching out some chemicals. Try a good cleansing though, even if it doesn't need it. I love the fresh pure taste of distilled water, I can't even stand the smell of tap water now, much less the taste.

My first 2 gallons tasted kinda weird, after that it settled down.
I don't use the plastic, I use ceramic and glass to hold my water. I think it tastes like the plastic when I put it into the plastic container. Plus, I figure those plastic containers are probably putting bisphenol-A or something into my water.

My first glass tasted really sweet. But then I got used it and now everything else is putrid. The water at the gym!! OH God it's like poison.

we may be on a similar path. Just got my first distiller last week. Thus far, I'm experimenting with distilling previously distilled water purchased retail. The source of this water is undergound spring. The spring actually surfaces in a historical mark - a dam that's since created a decent sized pond where the surfacing spring water pools. This was named by the native americans many moons ago. This pond is literally 50 feet out the door from the front counter of the retail outlet. The only residue that I'm finding inside the distiller tank is a bright white powdery substance. If I wipe/scrub after each use, the stain does not seem to be getting engrained into the metal (stainless steel) too badly.....wonder who ever came up with that marketing name "stainless" ?

I do not know what this white residue is from. I've read a little where others suggest white residue indicates Fluouride. It may be. I do not know. It is interesting that I've been told by the front counter worker where I buy this distilled water that they do not fluoridate.....they do ozonate, and filter with RO, but do not fluoridate. I've considered that perhaps the water is fluoridated but this info has not been allowed to trickle down to people like the front coutner worker at the retail outlet. I've also considered this white residue is caused by some other ingredient. This spring is located in the middle of a mostly rural farming community where it is common for Nitrates and other "runoff" to seep into shallow water table.....not sure if this is able to seep all the way into this undergroung spring, rumor and lore has it that this spring is very deep underground, but who knows?

Next stop on this experimentation path is to go to the spring and get some water right from the spring. This is sort of an old tradition that's existed in this town even many years before the town decided to go commercial and bottle this water. Daily, one can see locals with their little red waggons haulign their jugs to and from the little spout where the spring water comes out of the side of a hill.

Talk about a good business idea; many business people go to great lengths, destroying all kinds of natural resources and driving many a slave all in the effort to refine and manufacture a product to sell people. This spring water literally comes right out of the ground.....almost like oil. How much simpler can it get? This may help explain why many of the world's industrialists and their poltician accomplices are trying mightily to get their grubby hand's on such natural sources so that they can regulate & control it and us a little bit more.

Look at it this way, what you had been calling water was dirty and the dirty part gave it the flavor, now your drinking H2O.

I prefer fruit juice and drink less than a gallon of plain water per year. My 2 youngest boys refuse to drink any water. Trevor age 2 ans 1/2 refuses 100% to drink water, he has drank ONLY apple cider for the past 2 months. When the oranges come I will switch him to orange juice. He also loves pineapple juice, etc.

MH