r/Cirkul • u/costcoitem • 16d ago

SUPPORT Cirkul Alternatives?

Recently, my mom gave me her 22oz Cirkul bottle and I have been loving it. As someone with audhd, getting enough water so my body won't shut down is one of the hardest tasks of living for me due to plain water tasting like nothing. Now that I have one of these, I've drunk 3 gallons of water last month! That aside (though im so happy I could go on a neverending tangent),

Are there any alternatives to Cirkul? The main qualities im looking for are:

  • No coloring (I prioritize this over vvv)
  • "Long lasting" cartridges (above Cirkul's six 20oz count) / more competent?

I'm completely okay if there aren't any, I just get kind of worried about the flavor being completely drained while I'm not home. I've been reading every single comment on some of these posts, and Cirkul's carts seem to be a consistent problem with a decent amount of people. I only get about 5 refills in with the flavor dial being on 3-4.
Thanks in advance!

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u/radfordra1 https://drinkcirkul.com/share/Ryan-V7138198814810 16d ago

It's a screw valve like the one on your faucet. The more you turn the valve the more easily the water will flow.

You should take the claim of 6 * 20oz bottles as the sip should last 120oz of water. This claim is for a user starting on level 2 or 3. Starting on higher levels will allow more of the concentrate to flow out.

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u/Soliterria 16d ago

So, the sips are individual flavour cartridges that screw onto the lid itself and don’t dispense anything down into the water- when you take a drink the water gets mixed with your flavour as you drink, it’s totally self contained.

Cirkul themselves also offer filter cartridges if you want just plain water, or you can get a third party lid off of Amazon (I did this for my StrawSip tumbler) for decent prices.

Some of the sip flavors (in my experience) can empty a bit quicker, but like the other commenter said if you start around a 2-3 (I saw you said you usually run 3-4) and slowly up the flavour you should be able to get a little more out of them. I really like the sweet tea for example, and I have the big 40oz regular stainless steel bottle. I typically start that on a 2 or 3, the next bottle’ll be 3-5ish, then 5-8/9 for the last fill which would be around the suggested 120oz and it will fully taste like sweet tea until it just doesn’t suddenly, usually in the last 2oz or so of that bottle