Meet the Founder
My name is Arby Avanesian, and I am the founder. It's my personal opinion that improving one's brewing water is one of the most impactful avenues for improving the resulting coffee and tea.
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Over the years, I've come to the conclusion that at great detriment to the community, the main impediment to quality has been a lack of access to truly fantastic brewing water. I did my best to avail the situation by providing free, open-source recipes on my blog, Empirical Tea.
However, my DMs soon began to be flooded with requests to buy my water recipes for personal use. That was when I realized that not only was I not alone in wanting an easy solution for good water, there was a legitimate functional void to fill in the community. I found myself at the right place and time, already having a particular set of skills and being asked to use them. So I did!
Enter empirical water, the natural culmination of years of dedication to the craft.
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empirical water is my offering to all the other folks out there who are so unnecessarily serious about specialty brewing. I hope you'll give my creations a chance to knock your socks off.