Single source · Lithuania
Birutė
Birštonas · Nemunas valley cretaceous chalk aquifer, approx. 125 m depth
Carbonation addedDrawn from cretaceous chalk beneath Birštonas and bottled since the 1920s. Dense with dissolved salts yet oddly gentle about delivering them.
Mineral analysis
TDS2700mg/L total dissolved solids
Sparkling, full-bodied, sodium-savory with a dry, mineral finish.
Cation
Ca / MgNa
Anion
HCO₃SO₄ · Cl
Magnesium81 mg/L
smooth & easy
Silicanot published
Sodium650 mg/L
a savory, higher-sodium pour
Verified · official analysis ↗
- dense briny mouthfeel
- chalky mineral finish
- faint sulfurous edge
Birutė is a sparkling water from Lithuania with 2700 mg/L total dissolved solids and carries 186 mg/L calcium, 81 mg/L magnesium and 650 mg/L sodium (published analysis).
Balanced · closest in profile to Valser.
Type · The Old Salt
Find it in: Full body · Savory · Dry finish
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Common questions
- What does Birutė taste like?
- Birutė is sparkling, full-bodied, silky and soft, closing on a dry, mineral finish. It belongs to the Old Salt type in our sixteen-part typology, and the house tasting notes run dense briny mouthfeel, chalky mineral finish and faint sulfurous edge.
- Is Birutė good for you?
- Birutė is a regulated bottled water and safe to drink. The published analysis shows an intensely mineral water at 2700 mg/L dissolved solids, with a meaningful 81 mg/L of magnesium and 186 mg/L of calcium. Sodium sits at 650 mg/L, genuinely saline territory and part of how it tastes.
- What minerals are in Birutė?
- Birutė carries calcium 186, magnesium 81, sodium 650 and potassium 6 mg/L over bicarbonate 243, sulfate 375 and chloride 1204 mg/L. Sodium leads the mineral profile with chloride the main anion, at 2700 mg/L total dissolved solids.
- How much sodium is in Birutė?
- Birutė carries 650 mg/L of sodium. That is genuinely saline water, far past the 20 mg/L low-sodium line.
- Is Birutė hard or soft water?
- By its calcium and magnesium, Birutė works out to 789 mg/L as calcium carbonate, which counts as very hard water. That is genuinely hard water, chalky on the tongue and quick to scale a kettle.
- Is Birutė alkaline or acidic?
- Birutė is effectively neutral at pH 7.27, neither an alkaline nor an acidic water.
- Is Birutė still or sparkling?
- Birutė is a sparkling water. The carbonation is added at bottling.
- Where does Birutė come from?
- Birutė comes from Birštonas · Nemunas valley cretaceous chalk aquifer, approx. 125 m depth in Lithuania, a single source.