thood6
Well-Known Member
In my arean we have good quality tap water. (Softer,less chlorine and sulphur) but could I use gallon jugs of distilled water instead of tap water and improve the taste of my beer? Just an idea let me know what yall thing.
But distilled water will work fine for extract brewing.
Not true. You still use yeast in extract brewing, and they like calcium, for one.
And building water can be done, but it's easy to go overboard. I strongly recommend the
spring water, as mentioned above.
Right, but in the making of the extract, the manufacturers would have used water "appropriate" for mashing the grains. We might not know what the mineral profile was, but when the extract is rehydrated, you're going to get all those minerals as well.
I brew extract (only 1 batch so far). I have pretty hard well water. So without worrying with getting water tests, adding minerals etc. I went 50/50 with distilled/tap water. Only been in primary for about 10 days, so can't tell you how it tastes yet.
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