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#253496 - 01/23/12 04:33 PM
Prep Tap Water?
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Active Member
Registered: 01/15/08
Posts: 56
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Anybody Prep Tap Water with a 15 min boil?
I often have a bitter plastic taste from my beer. I think my keg is clean & it sits in the one-step for 20 - 30 mins before the wort is added.
My tap water tastes good, but was reading boiling the water would remove chlorine & it is the city water causing off flavors?
Also, don't have a two gallon pot so I'd have to boil two batches & cool by letting the pot sit in the fridge overnight?
Does this work? Are You Prepping the water?
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#253499 - 01/23/12 04:44 PM
Re: Prep Tap Water?
[Re: HappyBeer]
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Dinosaur Basement Brewing
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Registered: 03/15/11
Posts: 3008
Loc: OKC
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I use distilled or bottled drinking water by the gallon. Easy to use and measure out.
also it prolly won't take all night to cool. an ice bath and an hour or so should get it to room temp.
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#253509 - 01/23/12 05:20 PM
Re: Prep Tap Water?
[Re: Jon_TWR]
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That's what she said...
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Registered: 01/01/10
Posts: 7001
Loc: St. Louis, MO
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yup, i'd go with distilled water. only 99 cents per gallon, usually, so getting three gallons doesn't add much cost to the brew day.
and, i think you can just let the water sit overnight, in your brewpot without a lid, to let the chlorine off gas. that way you don't need to waste the energy of turning on the stove. just pour your water into a pot, let it sit overnight, and you're good to go. or am i thinking of sulfur?
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#253513 - 01/23/12 05:29 PM
Re: Prep Tap Water?
[Re: psuchunk03]
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I'm the white rabbit.
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Registered: 12/17/09
Posts: 12028
Loc: Brooklyn, NY
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yup, i'd go with distilled water. only 99 cents per gallon, usually, so getting three gallons doesn't add much cost to the brew day.
and, i think you can just let the water sit overnight, in your brewpot without a lid, to let the chlorine off gas. that way you don't need to waste the energy of turning on the stove. just pour your water into a pot, let it sit overnight, and you're good to go. or am i thinking of sulfur? Should work with either one. Another option, since you have two one gallon pots, is to pour the water back and forth between the two pots several times. That should get the dissolved chlorine to offgas. However, there's a chance that your water has chloramines in it, instead of chlorine. Those don't offgas. BUT, you can use camden tablets to dechlorinate the water, even if it uses chloramines. Crush up about half a tablet in the water (1 tablet can treat up to something like 20 gallons). Then just let the water sit overnight to let the sulfur from the camden tablet offgas, and you should be good to go. That said, I'd try one batch with distilled water, and see if you notice any difference. Good luck!
Edited by Jon_TWR (01/23/12 05:37 PM)
Edit Reason: Fixed camden tablet ratio
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#253521 - 01/23/12 06:27 PM
Re: Prep Tap Water?
[Re: psuchunk03]
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Dinosaur Basement Brewing
Ultimate Mr. Beer Fan
Registered: 03/15/11
Posts: 3008
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yup, i'd go with distilled water. only 99 cents per gallon i pay 78 cents a gallon at my store. very little for the added convenience and peace of mind.
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Carbing: World Series Tripel, Pale/Citra SMaSH
Conditioning:
Drinking: Dilophosaurus Doppelbock, Allosaurus Amarillo Pale Ale, Sinraptor Sorachi Ace AIPA, Caseosaurus Cascade APA (AG), Helioceratops Hefe, Witty Monk Modified, ESB (AG), SWMBO Nut Brown Ale
Up Next: Vienna/Simcoe SMaSH, DNR Clone
R.I.P: Stegosaurus Cream Ale (Awesome), T. Rex Red Ale (Great after conditioning)
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#253573 - 01/24/12 08:30 AM
Re: Prep Tap Water?
[Re: HappyBeer]
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Active Member
Registered: 01/15/08
Posts: 56
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Interesting,
boiled a stock pot of water & put it in the fridge.
Morning inspection shows on the bottom of the pot is a a white film of granular substance. I think it kind of tastes like salt.
Is this just from "Hard Water" or maybe I should call culligan?
The water tastes fine from the tap & never noticed the deposits before.
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#253891 - 01/25/12 09:11 PM
Re: Prep Tap Water?
[Re: Frosty]
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Sr. Mr Beer Fan
Registered: 12/27/10
Posts: 322
Loc: Cincinnati, Oh
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go with distilled water, my first few batches I used tap water because I drink it every day and thought it tasted fine. I switched to distilled because I had some off flavors and have not switched back. It's worth the extra cost, try it and see if you notice the difference
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#254011 - 01/26/12 02:45 PM
Re: Prep Tap Water?
[Re: HappyBeer]
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Active Member
Registered: 01/15/08
Posts: 56
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Good info to think about. Thanks.
understand about the tabs.
boiled the tap water & left the gunk in the bottom of the pot during the pour.
will see in 2 weeks if that helps the plastic off flavor.
kind of interested in the brita filter. Fighting a stubborn streak here, might as well buy beer If I have to bring home gallon jugs of water from the store.
never knew there was soo much gunk in my the tap water.
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#257678 - 02/19/12 10:00 PM
Re: Prep Tap Water?
[Re: Stinkfist]
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Newbie
Registered: 05/21/10
Posts: 20
Loc: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
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I have only brewed with Spring and Distilled water. Nothing else. I find that I have better tasting results with Distilled, dispite some negative things people say about distilled.
As long as I dont use booster, dont use Mr Beer yeast, and as long as I keep the proper fermentation temperatures and everything sanitized properly, i have never had any issues.
Everyone loves every batch that I make and I have made about 15 different styles the last 4 years.
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#257679 - 02/19/12 10:28 PM
Re: Prep Tap Water?
[Re: GR Travis]
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That's what she said...
Brewmeister
Registered: 01/01/10
Posts: 7001
Loc: St. Louis, MO
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who's been bad-mouthing distilled? we should find out who it was, get in some cars, and go over there and beat them with whiffle ball bats!
when you extract brew, distilled is preferred... since the extract makers condensed a wort with the minerals already in there... any added minerals in spring or tap water could disrupt the balance.
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"Only a fool learns from his mistakes; a wise man learns
from the mistakes of others." - Otto von BismarckFermenting:#25 Mr. Beer Beta Test Bavarian Weissbier Carbing / Conditioning:#24 Keep Calm and Brew On E.S.B. #21 Colonial Ale Drinking:Pipeline is empty On Deck (...eventually):Hefeweizen, Scottish Ale, Kenny's Fat Tire clone "It Has Big Taste"
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#257709 - 02/20/12 11:49 AM
Re: Prep Tap Water?
[Re: Milltime]
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That's what she said...
Brewmeister
Registered: 01/01/10
Posts: 7001
Loc: St. Louis, MO
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good points, milltime.
if anyone REALLY wants to start messing with their water chemistry, especially the all-grain brewers, most municipalities have a water report on file with dissolved mineral and chemical make-up...
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