Apollinaris (water)

Apollinaris

Country	Germany/USA
Source	Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
Type	sparkling
pH	5.8
Calcium (Ca)	90
Chloride (Cl)	130
Bicarbonate (HCO3)	1800
Fluoride (F)	0.7
Magnesium (Mg)	120
Nitrate (NO3)	1.6
Potassium (K)	30
Sodium (Na)	470
Sulfate (SO4)	100
TDS	1600
Website	apollinaris-gmbh.de
All concentrations in milligrams per liter (mg/L); pH without units

Apollinaris is a brand of effervescent table water, very well-known in German-speaking countries as "The Queen of Table Waters".

Since 1852, Apollinaris is sourced from a spring in Bad Neuenahr, Germany.

From the mid-1930s and until 1945, the Apollinaris company was controlled by the Amt III ('third office'), a division of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt' Amtsgruppe W in charge of the food industry in Nazi Germany. Along with other mineral waters—Sudetenquell and Mattoni—Apollinaris was bottled at the Rheinglassfabrik bottling plant, also controlled by the SS.

Today the source and the brand of Apollinaris belong to Coca-Cola which had acquired it from the multinational Cadbury-Schweppes in 2006.

Jerome K. Jerome novel Three Men on the Bummel contains description of the product from year 1900 “There is Apollinaris water which, I believe, with a little lemon squeezed into it, is practically harmless."

In the film American Psycho, Patrick Bateman, played by Christian Bale, offers Detective Kimball (Willem Dafoe) a bottle of Apollinaris, which he tries to politely refuse. Bateman insists, also offering a lime, bragging that he can "always get him a lime".

See also

• Mineral water

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ward, Artemas (1911). "The Grocer's Encyclopedia". The Grocer's Encyclopedia.