Froglady
Member
I've made some really simple hard cider and now want to branch out into meads and wines. I have 3, 1 gallon batches going right now: 2 meads and a really weird wine.
I'm really tight on the money front and was wondering about two things:
Can I use the water bottles (3 and 5 gallon) that I can get at the local grocery store as carboys?
and
How about the water from the Primo self-serve water stations? It's RO, right? My tap water has both chlorine and chloramine in it. I checked with the rural water dept. about it when I first moved here because I was wanting to do a bunch of sprouting. Which is better: spring water in the 1 gallon jugs ($0.88 gal.), the RO water from the self-serve thingie ($0.37 gal.) or try to "treat" my water using either Vitamin C or Campden tablets? For the moment, especially since I'm making such small batches, I've been buying the spring water @ $0.88 gal.
TIA!
I'm really tight on the money front and was wondering about two things:
Can I use the water bottles (3 and 5 gallon) that I can get at the local grocery store as carboys?
and
How about the water from the Primo self-serve water stations? It's RO, right? My tap water has both chlorine and chloramine in it. I checked with the rural water dept. about it when I first moved here because I was wanting to do a bunch of sprouting. Which is better: spring water in the 1 gallon jugs ($0.88 gal.), the RO water from the self-serve thingie ($0.37 gal.) or try to "treat" my water using either Vitamin C or Campden tablets? For the moment, especially since I'm making such small batches, I've been buying the spring water @ $0.88 gal.
TIA!