Are you sure you’re speaking English? 
Mind you, I’m in Gloucestershire. We d’got us some right ol’ weirdos down 'ere who don’t make no sense.
If your tap water tastes bad contact your local water company, I did once they sorted it within a week, don’t know how, they just rang me up and asked me if it had improved, it was the best water I had ever drank. Haha unfortunately I moved again 3 months later.
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I’m living in the midlands and the water is crap compared to up north. I just use a Brita filter and it works fine. My kettle at home is still sparkling clean on the inside while the kettle we use at work filled straight from the tap is completely caked in limescale.
I don’t use tap water, as I mostly use Huel at work, and our tap water here has a strange taste to it. Mineral water works great - I tend to just buy a large bottle from Poundstretcher and leave it in the fridge.
I did that too. Local water company rep visited, tasted water, agreed it tasted funny and suggested putting some in a jug with the lid off and put it in the fridge overnight for use the next day.
I bought a filter instead.
#CHEMTRAILS.
Just saying.
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I bought some bottled water once and it was full of chemtrails.
Expensive water is no solution.
If you want to be sure you need to make your Huel with dog’s milk.
Lasts longer than any other type of milk.
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I just turn my tap on and drink what comes out. If i die, my estate will sue Thames Water 
On a serious note, my ex-wife worked for Thames Water and said the regulations were such that tap water went through something like 114 safety tests where bottled water went through 50-something. Happy to stand corrected, it’s a 15ish year old memory.
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Bottled water has always seemed like a huge false marketing success to me, with a downside of waste plastic and energy associated with manufacturing, distribution etc.
Tap water in the uk is perfectly safe
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Funny story; a friend of mine got to go to a dinner at Buckingham palace (cos they are bloody posh) and someone at the table asked for bottled water. The waiter replied that they don’t have bottled water as the Queen drinks tap water.
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I find that Huel goes down smoother with the tap water at home compared with the stuff from the water cooler at work, but I’m probably imagining it.
I’m reminded of the time Penn and Teller’s Bullshit did bottled water:
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Tap water is best for washing down a swan supper.
That a comment from experience? Would you recommend swan flavoured Huel?
That’s amazing! I’ve never seen that before. It just goes to show how suggestible people are and how expectation plays such a big role in how we experience things. I wonder if this is also true with other expensive vs cheap products, e.g. wines, supermarket value brands, etc. For example, I bet if bought some supermarket value brand of rolled oats and put them in the box of a more expensive brand, people wouldn’t noticed the difference.
Penn and Teller did a similar episode (removed from YouTube, unfortunately) with budget convenience foods like canned whipped cream being served to customers in a high-end restaurant. The results were very similar, maybe even more pretentious. If you sell it right, people will eat literally almost anything (as I type, I’m now thinking of the sugary processed junk in attractive packaging that most people shovel in their faces every day).
We do have our own British version, which flips the idea around with a lot less humour and swearing, in the BBC’s Eat Well for Less. With all the nice packaging removed, the expensive brands tend to suffer, for example here’s a clip of a lady reacting to her favourite tea http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0421234
You know what, while I was reading your first paragraph I thought about that Eat Well for Less program, and then you me mentioned it! I’ve seen a few episodes of that. I remember that tea bit. It just goes to show how visual cues are important in taste perception.
Hey, why don’t we put some Huel in a Joylent bag and give it to Julian, then watch him recoil and say “Urgh, this is so much worse than my Huel!” Keep it a secret, though. Whatever you do, don’t tell Julian.
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Research is showing that sound frequencies can also mess with our taste buds. Nothing is what it seems …
But would we be using v2?