Unlike other bottled water companies, the origin of our premium
MENAI Tasmanian Spring Water is no secret!

We love to welcome visitors to see the source of our premium product. MENAI water flows abundantly from a spring behind the old MENAI Hotel in Burnie Tasmania, now known as the "King of Burnie'.  The MENAI Hotel was an icon in North West Tasmania where young people flocked to enjoy local and interstate bands including an up and coming AC/DC in 1975! Many people have fond memories of meeting their future spouses there. Little did they know that the Uncrowned King of Burnie once lived in the historic mansion that became the MENAI Hotel.

Just who was this remarkable man?

In the 1800's a bold and entrepreneurial Welsh Seafarer by the name of Captain William Jones sailed thousands of miles to another hemisphere and a new life in the Antipodes. After negotiating Bass Strait- Australia's most treacherous stretch of water, he settled in the newly formed township of Burnie on the ruggedly beautiful North West coast of Tasmania. There he tapped water that had flowed for thousands of years from a spring behind MENAI - the magnificent mansion he built high on the hill overlooking the endless sea that had brought him to his new home.  Captain Jones supplied much of the pioneer township of Burnie with the water to sustain what would later become a burgeoning industrial city. A Welshman through and through, Captain Jones named his mansion MENAI (pronounced 'men-eye') after the dangerous MENAI Straits off the Welsh coast. When speaking of these straits and the perilous sand bar that separated them from the coast he famously noted, " I will meet my maker face to face across the bar. " Today you may not meet your maker at the MENAI Bar at The King of Burnie but ... you will be able to toast a great Tasmanian pioneer with premium MENAI Tasmanian Spring Water right at the source.

First class Tasmanian water — the rest is history.