Water - The Thread

[squeegeethree]

I'm fortunate that I live in a city with great water that is ready to brew with for most styles. Also our public water is rather affordable. I thought maybe a thread devoted to it as an ingredient might be nice. I just installed a APEC filter at work because nobody ever filled up our Britta pitcher (workmates don't trust our pipes). You can find all of the APEC systems on Amazon and they are reasonably priced
https://www.freedrinkingwater.com/products/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpPKBh8n24gIVx1SGCh3WvgGVEAAYASAAEgJAXvD_BwE

Since our water is good to begin with I got the simplest 3 stage filter with tap. Everyone at work is thrilled. They also make RO systems with UV sterilization if you need to go that route. RO is slow from my experience and not that useful in high demand situations. IMO shipping water is stupid, bottled water is a sin and everyone on the planet deserves clean drinking water as a human right.

[Grantmesteven]

Couldn't agree more that clean water is a human right

[wilcolandzaat]

Here on bonaire good water as well. Me confused reading the water book. To complicated for me.

[Rburrelli]

Just doing my first batch with adjustments today. Lots of reading beforehand. Doing distilled and basically some gypsum and calcium chloride. No acidification needed.

I hope it works. Doing a blonde ale. Five gallon batch,

[voodoo_donut]

My tap water pH is 7.6, so I always have to add lactic acid or citric acid, even with gypsum and CaCl addidtions. I don't brew a lot of stouts(any stouts) so on those I might not need acid....
My water is ok for brewing. I have on my to do list to update my water report with Ward's Lab. It's been a while.

The more reading you do(to a point, I find I get glassy eyed after awhile) and video study you do the better(I've said it before, there are some good you tube videos on applied water brewing chemistry,more helpful to me).

Of course there is no substitute for actual brewing water treatment, the more you do, the more comfortable you will become, and your brews will improve.