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Certified on every lot, checkable on every bottle
A mark that cannot be checked is decoration. Every production run is certified and every bottle carries a code, so the venue can prove what it is serving and the guest can see it without taking anyone’s word for it.
What a scan shows
- Needs an account
- No
- Needs a cookie
- No
- Records who scanned
- Never
- Shows volumes or prices
- Never
- Certified per
- Production lot
What is recorded
Five hops, each one on the record
Read it backwards and the compliance story falls out: the number on a guest’s screen traces to a laboratory report, through an approved recipe, through a frozen production snapshot, to the lot in their hand. Nothing is asserted that cannot be walked back.
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Coremin · Utah
The source
Concentrate drawn from the Great Salt Lake, one of the world’s most mineral-dense inland waters. It arrives with its own lot and expiry, and everything downstream is measured against it — a finished lot carries the mark only if all of its concentrate came from us.
- Carries
- over 70 trace elements
- Recorded
- grade · lot · expiry
- Measured in
- litre · kilogram
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Hospitality partner
The recipe
The dosage is written once at territory level and approved by Coremin before anything is produced against it. Each version is frozen, so a change tomorrow cannot rewrite what was made today. The mineral values a guest will see hang off the version, each with a laboratory reference.
- Versioned
- frozen once published
- Approved by
- Coremin, per version
- Carries
- composition · lab reference
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Contract bottler
The run
A licensed bottler produces to the approved recipe. Concentrate is drawn oldest-expiry-first and consumed against the lot it came from, and the run records the recipe version it used — which is what lets a scan quote the right numbers years later.
- Draws
- oldest expiry first
- Records
- the recipe version used
- Refuses
- a brand it cannot fill
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The registry
The lot
Every run mints a lot with a registered number and its own certificate. The number goes on the label, as the law requires. The code inside the QR is something else — a long random token, unguessable, and therefore safe to put in a stranger’s hands.
- On the label
- lot · bottled · best before
- In the QR
- a 32-character token
- Certificate
- one per production lot
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The guest
The glass
The bottle reaches a table and somebody scans it. They see the product, the lot, the minerals approved for the recipe that made it, who bottled it under which licence — and the venue’s own offer where there is one. No account, no cookie, nothing asked of them.
- Open to anyone
- no sign-up to read a label
- Shows
- product · lot · minerals · maker
- Never shows
- volumes · buyers · prices
The deliverable
Every sale issues an authenticity certificate
Not a brochure claim — a record. When a bottler sells a lot, the buyer of record is emailed a certificate naming exactly what they bought. It is the document that makes the mark enforceable, and the reason a recall can reach people by name.
Certificate of authenticity
Acme Hydrate 500 ml
- Batch number
- STG-2026-00427
- Produced
- 12 Mar 2026
- Best before
- 11 Mar 2027
- Formulation
- v3, approved
- Produced by
- Beta Bottling, Pune
- Brand owner
- Acme Hotels
- Buyer of record
- Acme Hotels, Koregaon Park
- Verify at
- coremin.in/verify
Illustrative. Real certificates carry the lot’s own values and a verification link unique to it.
What it is for
- Proof at the point of saleA venue can show a buyer, an auditor or an inspector what it is serving and where it came from, without telephoning anybody.
- A named buyer for every lotBecause the certificate is issued to a buyer of record, a recall reaches people directly rather than hoping they see a notice.
- It can be withdrawnA certificate is not permanent. If a lot is recalled, the certificate is withdrawn with it and the scan says so.
- It is scoped, not publicVerification is authenticated and limited to people entitled to see that lot — the brand owner, the producer, the buyer. It is not a public lookup, because that would leak production volumes.
Two surfaces, and they do not overlap.
- Certificate — who
- Trade only
- Certificate — access
- Signed in, scoped
- Certificate — shows
- Buyer, lot, lineage
- Bottle code — who
- Anyone holding it
- Bottle code — access
- No account, no cookie
- Bottle code — shows
- Product, lot, minerals, maker
- Either one ever shows
- No volumes, buyers or prices
A guest cannot reach the certificate and a trade lookup cannot be performed from the bottle code. Same chain, two questions, two surfaces.
The gate
Every millilitre, or no mark at all
A lot carries Powered by COREMIN™ only if all of its concentrate came from Coremin. Not most of it. There is no partial mark and no “contains” variant, because a mark that survives dilution is not worth printing.
Traced to a drum
Concentrate is consumed against the lot it arrived in, oldest expiry first. A run that cannot account for its input cannot be certified.
Frozen at production
The run records the formulation version it used and keeps a snapshot of it. A recipe change tomorrow cannot rewrite what was made today.
Withdrawn if wrong
A certificate can be withdrawn and a lot recalled. The next scan of that lot leads with the recall and shows no offer and no benefit claim.
The scan
What a guest sees, and what they never see
No account. No cookie. Nothing asked of them to read a label. Try both kinds of bottle — they resolve differently, and the reason matters.
The two codes on a bottle are not the same thing
The lot number is printed on the label because the law requires it, and it is sequential. The code inside the QR is a thirty-two character random token. Only the second one is ever accepted as an input, and the difference is not cosmetic: a sequential number can be counted up through, which would tell a competitor how much a plant produced.
- On the label
- lot · bottled · best before
- Inside the QR
- a 32-character token
- Accepted as an input
- the token only
- Guessable
- no
The boundary
A guest learns more about the water than the label can hold — and nothing about anyone’s business
This line is drawn deliberately and it is the same line in the app, on the website and in the API.
Shown to anyone holding the bottle
- ✓Product, pack size and brand
- ✓This lot: bottled on, best before
- ✓Whether the lot has been recalled
- ✓Approved mineral values for the recipe that made it
- ✓Who bottled it, and under which licence
- ✓The venue’s profile and its own current offer
- ✓Hydration and trace mineral reading
Never shown, to anyone, ever
- ✗How much was produced, sold or is in stock
- ✗Any other lot of anything
- ✗Any buyer, price, cost or margin
- ✗Which venues bought a house-brand lot
- ✗Another venue’s profile or offers
- ✗Who scanned, or where they were standing
Offers
The venue’s offer, on the venue’s terms
A venue can put a discount behind the code on its own bottles. It writes the offer, funds it and honours it on its own bill. Coremin shows it and is not a party to it.
The venue
Owns the offer
- ✓Writes the offer and its conditions
- ✓Funds it and honours it at the till
- ✓Sets its own terms and policies
- ✓Can change or delist it at any time
- ✓Warrants that it is accurate
Coremin
Provides the platform
- ✓Shows the offer as the venue’s own
- ✓Keeps a version history, for disputes
- ✓Can suspend a misleading offer
- ✓Never touches the money
- ✓Claims no rights over the offer
The guest
Reads and decides
- ✓Sees every condition on the offer itself
- ✓Pays the venue, not Coremin
- ✓May rate and review the product
- ✓May rate and review the venue
- ✓Needs no account to read the label
Conditions on the offer, not behind a link
Minimum bill, validity, dine-in or takeaway and whether it combines with anything else all appear on the offer card itself. “Terms apply” with a link is how a guest ends up arguing with a waiter.
“Best offer” only when it is computed
If a guest chooses to enter their bill amount, offers can be valued and ranked, and the best one named. If they do not, the screen says “available offers” and makes no superlative claim, because there would be no basis for one.
Privacy
Two tiers, and the second one is cheap
| No sign-up | Mobile or email | |
|---|---|---|
| Product, pack and brand | Yes | Yes |
| This lot’s dates and recall status | Yes | Yes |
| Approved mineral values | Yes | Yes |
| Who bottled it | Yes | Yes |
| The venue you are sitting in | Yes | Yes |
| Hydration and mineral reading | Yes | Yes |
| More offers | — | Yes |
| Participating venues near you | — | Yes |
| Rate and review | — | Yes |
A mobile number or an email address. That is the whole form.
Everything else is optional, and skipping it costs the guest nothing. Registration exists so that “near me” and reviews can work at all, not as a way to collect people.
We store the venue’s location. Never the guest’s.
A venue that wants to appear in a distance-sorted list has to tell us where it is — that is a precondition of using the offers module. A guest’s coordinates are used to sort the list in front of them and are not kept.
Certification
Want to see a certificate?
We will walk you through a real lot certificate and the scan it resolves to, end to end.