---
type: Article
title: Brecon Carreg
description: I am drinking a cup of water from a bottle of sparkling mineral water from Wales. The marketing copy on the side is wonderfully absurd - wild water from Wales indeed.
resource: https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2005-03-14-brecon-carreg/
tags: [Shorticles, Misc]
timestamp: 2005-03-14
---


I am drinking a cup of water from a bottle of sparkling mineral water from Wales. On the side is printed the following:  

> **Wild water from Wales?**  
>  Brecon Carrig is wild in every sense.  
>  Conceived far out in the Atlantic,  
>  delivered by the west winds onto the  
>  Black Mountain deep within the  
>  Brecon Beacons National Park.  
>  Where for 15 years it percolates  
>  through the limestone strata, being  
>  naturally purified and gaining  
>  its unique fresh taste.

15 years! and yet the bottle has a sell by date printed on the top - Oct 2005.

  
  

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