Drinking Water Safe Hose

I recently purchased a drinking water safe hose from Wal Mart to use in my brewing set up I drank some water from the hose prior to using it and didn't taste any of the hose so I went with it. My first batch will be ready to drink soon and am curious if anyone else has used a hose like this for brewing?

I use a hose like that along with a RV inline water filter for all of my brews. It works very well.

Ed

I will only use them during brewing and filling my grandsons little pool. Just too much crap literally with 2 dogs on the regular garden hose. Blue one is a Swan brand the other one I bought many years ago for the trailer ... I am using the chiller to heat the kiddie pool . Only kid in the neighborhood with 86° pool water

Leave the kiddie pool out for a day here and it will be 95 degrees.

nice use of the immerision chiller!!

EdWort said:

Leave the kiddie pool out for a day here and it will be 95 degrees.

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not here ED the ground water is still 59° and its in the 70's . Summer still isnt here. At least the A/C hasn't been on yet

sethful said:

nice use of the immerision chiller!!

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Do it every time I brew in the summer now.

Nice pool warmer!
Yeah the RV drinking water hoses are fine.

Is there any need for SS fittings? I found this website selling the drinking water hoses with either brass or SS fittings.

Eric

If it's the blue 25' hose that Wal-Mart sells, I bought 2 of them. Within ten minutes of connecting one of them to an outside faucet, I had a major malfunction (blowout). What a piece of s***. It actually claimed to have a 7 year warranty. What a laugh. I took it back.

jlosbor said:

If it's the blue 25' hose that Wal-Mart sells, I bought 2 of them. Within ten minutes of connecting one of them to an outside faucet, I had a major malfunction (blowout). What a piece of s***. It actually claimed to have a 7 year warranty. What a laugh. I took it back.

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I have had the Swan blue hose since last summer . The white one about 10 years . The white Camco brand hose is much sturdier than the Swan . How high is your water pressure ? You may have gotten a bad one .

EricCSU said:

Is there any need for SS fittings? I found this website selling the drinking water hoses with either brass or SS fittings.

Eric

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Holy sheisse! Not afraid to charge for stainless, are they?

It's only water... brass is fine.

I have this hose http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=46348-177-LOMC12025FM&lpage=none

Is it able to be used? Here is the drinking water hose http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=164186-177-LO1508050TSL&lpage=none

What is the difference between the two? They both say lead safe, and made from medical grade vinyl.

both are fine.I have found the white one made for Rv's are heavier duty .The blue ones seem to twist and kink a lot more.

Edit: Just as I thought I looked at the specs and the white is 4 ply and the blue is 3 ply.

I also use one of the white ones, got it from the RV/camping store.

Wish I could have some of that cold ground water, ours is about 80 in the summer and 75 in January.

~r~

My tap water is running in the 50's right now. It comes from the Hudson river soon it will be in the 40's when the river ices up.

(OT) springer, speaking of the Hudson, I should be cruising past your place some time on Saturday on my annual boat trip. You're just South of West Point right?

springer said:

My tap water is running in the 50's right now. It comes from the Hudson river soon it will be in the 40's when the river ices up.

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Trade you some 80 degree swamp-water.



~r~

Bobby_M said:

(OT) springer, speaking of the Hudson, I should be cruising past your place some time on Saturday on my annual boat trip. You're just South of West Point right?

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I am north of the Beacon/Newburgh bridge . West Point is south of me near Highland falls

Anyone NOT using a drinking water safe hose? I recently ordered an inline RV water filter and was planning on putting it on the end of my existing hose, assuming it will filter out any flavor the hose imparts on the water (along with the chlorine, which is my main reason), and since it will be the last thing on the hose, there won't be any hose contact on the clean water. Your thoughts?

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Anyone NOT using a drinking water safe hose? I recently ordered an inline RV water filter and was planning on putting it on the end of my existing hose, assuming it will filter out any flavor the hose imparts on the water (along with the chlorine, which is my main reason), and since it will be the last thing on the hose, there won't be any hose contact on the clean water. Your thoughts?

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It may or may not remove any off flavors contributed by the garden hose. I wouldn't chance it. The potable water hoses aren't expensive and then you won't have to worry about it. When using a filter, run the water relatively slowly to give the filter time to do it's job.

The thing is that any hose is rubber of some sort. If it's potable water safe, it's lead free. However, it says nothing about whether the water coming out will have plastic/rubber flavors. I can swear I taste something funny in my RV hose water.

Bobby,

I think the RV hoses are actually a plastic of some kind and technically not really rubber. When they are brand new the RV potable water hoses may give off some minor amounts of something you can detect, but after running some water through them I can't taste or smell anything. These hoses are commonly used by almost all of my brewing friends and I haven't heard anyone mention a problem with them. I've been using them for a long time without issues on both sides of the carbon cannister filter. Most of us expose our water and beer to a lot of plastic in the brewing process. It's difficult to avoid plastic exposure entirely with the cooler mash tuns, vinyl hoses, plastic spoons, racking canes, plastic fermentation buckets etc., etc. Yes, the potable water hoses are supposed to be certified "safe", although I would think the manufacturers would also tend to design them so that they don't affect the flavor of the water also. Seems if there was a problem due to the hoses that it would surface in competitions. So far, for me, it hasn't been an issue.

I guess I need to do a blind tasting. I've run hundreds of gallons through mine already so the "new" thing is out of the question.

I ran by Lowes at lunch to look at their RV/Drinking Water Safe Hoses. Since all the Holiday stuff is there now, the pickings were thing. I found the same 25' white hose Julohan did...

Julohan said:

I have this hose http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=46348-177-LOMC12025FM&lpage=none

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and like he said, it's made from "Medical Grade Vinyl."

I read the packaging on the other hoses they had in stock and they said things like:

"contains a substance known to cause cancer in the state of California" (good think I'm not in CA... I know, old joke)

"contains lead"

"Interior of hose is dark and moist and can harbor microorganisms" (or something like that... the dark and moist were actually in the text).

They all said "do not drink from this hose," except the one I purchased (as ref'd above), of course.