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Default Home brewed beer - hard or softened water?

Was there not somebody using rain water suitable zapped with uv or
something?
I don't drink so only heard it in passing.
Brian

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"Andy Bennet" wrote in message
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On 07/05/2020 14:21, 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.


Depends on the brew. I know for a fact that Greene King purify their local
water, then add back in all the minerals present in the brewing water of
the brewerys they bought out in the past, to recreate the proper flavour
of the corresponding beers/ales.

If you live in Burton on Trent I guess you use it neat and untouched!