We tested it while biking and loved the ability to refill our bike water bottles quickly, take a few swigs, fold up the bottle, and throw it in a pocket. At least you can rest assured that companies are taking environmental health into consideration and making plastic bottles out of materials that don't leach BPA, BPS, BPF, phthalates, and other known carcinogens into your water. The soft plastic bottles were the most lightweight, and they also heated up the most in the sun, lending an undesirable plastic taste.

Our top glass bottle, the Purifyou Premium, has a relatively slender design (although it doesn't fit in most cup holders) and a silicone sleeve that makes it easy to grab. If you’re already a fan, you can find the colourful Paperchase stationery ranges you know and love, and discover exciting new designs. These varied situations have allowed Jon to hone in on each bottle's strengths and weaknesses, and determine the right bottle for your specific needs.Everyone drinks water, but not everyone takes hydration as seriously as our lead bottle testers, Jon Oleson and Jane Jackson. By signing up you agree with this and confirm that you are over 13 years of age, or have the consent of a parent or guardian.

The Grayl GeoPress has an outer container that you fill with untreated water and an inner chamber with a filter that you press into the outer container. The Lifestraw Go is a cheaper type of plastic; when drinking directly from the bottle (with the lid off), we could definitely taste it.These varying situations have provided excellent opportunities to test the portability, durability, ease of use, and overall performance of the water bottles seen in this review.

The Brita Stainless Steel Filter Bottle also has a push button flip cap with a satisfyingly squishy silicone bite straw, a soft and comfortable two-finger carry loop, and will fit in your cup holder. An outlier was the classic Nalgene Wide Mouth, which imparts surprisingly little taste to a bottle of hot water and is also surprisingly resistant to flavors.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. These bottles have been used in multiple situations — from keeping us and our kids hydrated at the local park to helping us fill up with spring runoff in the mountains. Our Editors' Choice, the Hydro Flask Wide Mouth with Straw, is also a sleek flip straw bottle with a comfortable carry loop that makes it easy to tote around. This newer LifeStraw design gives you way more options for drinking and transporting stream or lake water.

Because it's a filter bottle, we were hesitant to put any flavoring into it to avoid contaminating the filter. The Klean Kanteen TKWide was the only container with a straw that did not impart a plastic taste because its straw is also stainless steel. The flip-up straw design on the lid makes for quick and easy sips that we found promoted our hydration.The soft plastic, collapsible bottles--like the Nomadr Collapsible--heated up the most under the sun. We tested collapsible and glass bottles, as well as bottles offering different methods of filtration. If taste and insulation are a higher priority for you, the Klean Kanteen TKWide Recycled Insulated scored higher in those two metrics and just a point behind the Hydro Flask, overall.