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I am wondering where is the best place for quality & price to buy water for my home brew. i was using tap water boiled and left to rest in attempt to remove calcum etc thats added. but now looking to but filtered or spring water and wondering where other brew makers use.

keith

I have been using tap water for years with no trouble.

Is there a particular problem with your water? If not, simply adding 1/2 a crushed campden tablet will get rid of the chlorine and you are good to go.

Water companies don't actually add calcium to the water. It, along with other minerals, occurs naturally. Are you boiling your water to precipitate calcium carbonate in order to change your water profile for all grain brewing? If so, you can use CRS[/url:2weime0c] to reduce it.

Keith,

I can supply you with Distilled or De-ionized water in 25Lt drums if you would like me to quote you,
We sell this to Labs where they need pure water,

PM me with your details if you would like a quote

Frank Eardely
Scientific & Chemical Supplies,
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I'm' also passively looking for some place to get deionized water or distilled water; I've had some beers brewed with really, REALLY soft water lately and they are SOO nice and malty smooth and drinkable.

There's a new push by quite a few brewers and brewing scientists to start from deionized water and just add the minimum number of minerals required.


I think a light lager or any maltier style can benefit from soft water.


PMing for a quote, but I sure hope it's priced like it's just water...


Adam

Large pet shops and Aquarium shops will sometimes sell or even give away Reverse Osmosis water.

I paid €5 for 22.5 litres from the pet shop in Kinsealy on the Malahide road.

Rumour has it the aquarium/pet shop shop in Ashbourne will give it to you.

The shops also tend to sell 5 gallon containers for a good price and I bought one for €12 full of RO water.

Cheers

Will

&amp;quot;Will_D&amp;quot;:3umjjjrp wrote: Large pet shops and Aquarium shops will sometimes sell or even give away Reverse Osmosis water.

I paid €5 for 22.5 litres from the pet shop in Kinsealy on the Malahide road.

Rumour has it the aquarium/pet shop shop in Ashbourne will give it to you.

The shops also tend to sell 5 gallon containers for a good price and I bought one for €12 full of RO water.

Cheers

Will[/quote:3umjjjrp]

The shop in Ashbourne told me to bring a container and they will fill it from their 200l reserve tank.

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