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Default Home brewed beer - hard or softened water?

On Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:21:27 UTC+1, NY wrote:
I'm about to try brewing beer from a kit. Our tapwater is fairly hard, but
the house has a water softener (*) for one of the kitchen taps.

Is it better to use hard water, as it is supplied, or to use water from the
softener? I can't detect any difference in taste of water from the normal or
softened tap.


(*) One of those inline cylindrical ones that is fitted with compression
fittings into a branch of copper piping off the rising main.


Heating water knocks most of the hardness out (as limescale)anyway.