On 07/05/2020 16:10, Algernon Goss-Custard wrote:
newshound posted
On 07/05/2020 15:22, Algernon Goss-Custard wrote:
NY posted
I'm about to try brewing beer from a kit. Our tapwater is fairly
hard,Â* but the house has a water softener (*) for one of the kitchen

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.


Â*I'd say it is far more important to make sure the tap water isn't
excessively chlorinated. I had to give up home brew years ago when my
water board (Thames) started putting far too much chlorine in the
water,Â* contaminating just about every batch with fermentation
by-products thatÂ* had a filthy chemical taste.

But you boiled your wort didn't you? No chlorine should survive that.

I boiled the malt extract and sugar. Not the 40 pints of tap water I put
in afterwards.

Just leaving the water to stand for a day before starting the process,
should allow most of the chlorine a chance to escape.


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Cheers,

John.

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