jpsloan
Well-Known Member
I've read in a few places that potassium metabisulfite can be used to bind the chlorine and chloramine out of municiple water. My tap water is not to shabby (the water report I got a couple weeks ago didn't mention chloramine, so I'm not sure if they consider it "chlorine" or not), but I am getting some subtle but distracting chlorophenol flavors. I suspect the water.
I've got a bag of the stuff for my wine-making, and I was wondering if I couldn't fill my bottling bucket with, say, eight gallons of tap water, and then stir in some p.m., and then use that bottling bucket as my water source for the brew?
I've found in another thread that 1 campden tablet can treat 20 gallons of water. So... half a tablet would treat 10 gallons. What would that be equivalent to in the powdered form... 1/4 teaspoon?
I've got a bag of the stuff for my wine-making, and I was wondering if I couldn't fill my bottling bucket with, say, eight gallons of tap water, and then stir in some p.m., and then use that bottling bucket as my water source for the brew?
I've found in another thread that 1 campden tablet can treat 20 gallons of water. So... half a tablet would treat 10 gallons. What would that be equivalent to in the powdered form... 1/4 teaspoon?