Best drink or solution for hydration packs?

[duramax]

Ive tried from just plain water to gatorade, and lemon. Still get that funky plastic bag taste. What everyones solutions? Thanks.

[high country]

What brand? I have a camelback and it seems good.

[duramax]

I have the camelback and badlands hydration bags and they both do it.

[swanny]

I might suggest getting just a flavored water instead of adding Gatorade or a drink mix. The mixes and sports drinks tend to bleed their taste into Camelbaks.

If you want a good drink mix for a water bottle, try Nuun. They are awesome and delicious little electrolyte tablets that you mix with 16oz of water.

[vandeman17]

I was getting a funky taste out of mine but I tried soaking it in soapy water over night, rinsed it out really well and that seemed to do the trick. I am gong on a week long hunt in Idaho in two weeks and I plan on filling mine with Powerade.

[duramax]

Thanks for the replies. Ill look into the Nuun.

[billythekidrock]

Water!
 
I like powdered lemonade, but if you forget to wash it out...

[gasman]

Wash with hot water and bleech. Rinse very well..........
Been using the same Platapus for 5 years now. I clean it with bleach regularly and the water in it taste just fine.

Cleans it right up 

[Tim in Wa.]

Try pushing a clean patch through the tube,you might be surprised and a little disgusted by what you find

[elkslayer99]

Then you get rid of all the great taste!

[MikeWalking]

Wash with hot water and bleech. Rinse very well..........
Been using the same Platapus for 5 years now. I clean it with bleach regularly and the water in it taste just fine.

Cleans it right up 

I've met people who liked Efferdent.. the Denture cleaner.

[briancorneal]

Camelbak's always tastes like plastic in my experience, no matter how well you clean it.  Try platypus at REI.  The best I've found.  Easy to clean too...oh try powered gatorade

[Bearmtn]

wal mart has these drink mixes that come in idividually portioned packages that cost like a buck fiddy for 10 of them, took them on my high hunt with me and it was great to have a little flavor mixed into my water since you tend to drink a ton when your out in the wilderness, I had the wild strawberry energy mix and it tasted pretty good for the price.

[backwoods_boy]

this is what i am using this year...
iced tea is great.