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Title: Best drink or solution for hydration packs?
Post by: duramax on September 25, 2011, 08:30:00 PM: Ive tried from just plain water to gatorade, and lemon. Still get that funky plastic bag taste. What everyones solutions? Thanks.
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Post by: high country on September 25, 2011, 08:34:57 PM: What brand? I have a camelback and it seems good.
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Post by: duramax on September 25, 2011, 08:39:20 PM: I have the camelback and badlands hydration bags and they both do it.
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Post by: swanny on September 26, 2011, 09:40:39 AM: 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.
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Post by: vandeman17 on September 26, 2011, 09:44:13 AM: 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.
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Post by: duramax on September 26, 2011, 06:09:59 PM: Thanks for the replies. Ill look into the Nuun.
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Post by: billythekidrock on September 26, 2011, 06:16:44 PM: Water!

I like powdered lemonade, but if you forget to wash it out... :puke:
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Post by: gasman on September 26, 2011, 06:35:54 PM: 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 :tup:
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Post by: Tim in Wa. on September 26, 2011, 07:27:37 PM: Try pushing a clean patch through the tube,you might be surprised and a little disgusted by what you find
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Post by: elkslayer99 on September 26, 2011, 08:11:13 PM: Then you get rid of all the great taste!
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Post by: MikeWalking on September 26, 2011, 08:28:58 PM: Quote from: gasman on September 26, 2011, 06:35:54 PM
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 :tup:

I've met people who liked Efferdent.. the Denture cleaner.
Title: Re: Best drink or solution for hydration packs?
Post by: briancorneal on September 26, 2011, 08:55:11 PM: 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
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Post by: Bearmtn on October 05, 2011, 04:03:19 PM: 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. :twocents:
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Post by: backwoods_boy on October 05, 2011, 04:20:38 PM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2Fpublic%2FDJVoY2BUxqZeQwlERKN1VT6ljJ0ffksNBKZilILjQiiwnmHVnIqZCrB8jfTZyMdHAkLlxAZaYas0NnAyvHd_9MSQM2TqInOMAgk0WfnShIAvJCK7FhsCdQTCCaFsG5CDHslQev5H-IJW00O0K2EpVWpDcZNJP5pGe7DGSIfTtF-UzwR4W4azel5pTQUoCC5f_RkFK_1cM0U1Bj2K_g&hash=2e4dcfac8b5f197f05c147d79b571f9093e65a45)

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