[THC] water

[mr soul]

What I am saying is that I use city water that I have softened using my hom=
e water softner.  =

   =

  Tom

stephen baluch <stephenbaluch at yahoo.com> wrote:
  I use WL tap water and use 1 tbsp pH 5.2 per 5 gallons
brewed. That is unless I am brewing a pilsner for my
brother in law, which in that case I use DI from
Purdue and adjust it with salts. I could get around
using the 5.2 if I boiled and aerated the water prior
to using it to knock the bicarbonate out of solution,
however that costs a lot of money and time, something
im not really willing to do.

I would be surprised to find that any city softens
their water, that would cost a ton of money. You
stated that the beer you make tastes just fine, which
also tells me that your city water is not softned. =

The reasoning behind this is that you live in Indiana
(land of unreasonably hard water), softening generally
refers to a process by which all the positive ions
(Ca, Mg, and the like) are replaced by Na. People who
have generally soft water to begin with can get away
with using softened water for brewing because the
[ppm] of the Na will be inherently low. However, for
us in Hoosierland, if we were to use soft water the
[Na] would be astronomically high, and the other
elements would be very low. Low Mg and Ca mean low
efficiency in the mash, while high Na means really
freaking bitter beer.



> I was listening to this weeks podcast of
> basicbrewingradio about water and =

> had the following question.
> =

> Do most of you use
> 1. bottled water
> 2. unfiltered city/well water
> 3. softened water
> 4. filtered water
> =

> for brewing?
> =

> I have always used softened city water. The
> podcast commented that you =

> should avoid using softened water in brewing. I
> have never noticed any off =

> flavors.
> =

> Tom



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