GreenDragon
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The wife is pregnant with our first child and has developed smell aversions to my brewing hobby. In her defense when I used to brew in the house I could still smell "beer" two days later, so I can see her point.
Anyhow I've been banished to the garage. When she banished me I picked up one of these off Amazon for $54 with free shipping... flippen LOVE it. Never doing electric stovetop brewing again!
Eventually I'll get to my question. I have pretty much a full set up in the garage. It's like a man-cave with no air conditioning. I have a TV, surround sound, full size fridge (soon to be a keggarator), a table, some comfy chairs, etc. The only thing I am missing is a water source. So last batch I used the garden hose outside. It works really well, easy to control and no running back and forth. I refrigerate 2 gallons of water the night before to help cool the wort before pitching so only water that will be boiled comes from the hose.
Okay so finally my question... Is hose water safe? I let the water run for a while before filling up my pot. I didn't mind so much on brew day because the water would be boiled, but now I'm getting ready to dry hop and I like to rinse the starsan out of the secondary before I rack to it. I'm pretty sure it's safe for humans, g-d knows I drank out of it a lot when I was a kid and I'm still here, but the hose is synthetic and gets warm water left in it.
BTW.. I know they say not to rinse Starsan but it always comes out so strong, even when using half the amount suggested. So I like to give it a quick rinse. If this is an epic foul just let me know and my question will be null and void.
Anyhow I've been banished to the garage. When she banished me I picked up one of these off Amazon for $54 with free shipping... flippen LOVE it. Never doing electric stovetop brewing again!
Eventually I'll get to my question. I have pretty much a full set up in the garage. It's like a man-cave with no air conditioning. I have a TV, surround sound, full size fridge (soon to be a keggarator), a table, some comfy chairs, etc. The only thing I am missing is a water source. So last batch I used the garden hose outside. It works really well, easy to control and no running back and forth. I refrigerate 2 gallons of water the night before to help cool the wort before pitching so only water that will be boiled comes from the hose.
Okay so finally my question... Is hose water safe? I let the water run for a while before filling up my pot. I didn't mind so much on brew day because the water would be boiled, but now I'm getting ready to dry hop and I like to rinse the starsan out of the secondary before I rack to it. I'm pretty sure it's safe for humans, g-d knows I drank out of it a lot when I was a kid and I'm still here, but the hose is synthetic and gets warm water left in it.
BTW.. I know they say not to rinse Starsan but it always comes out so strong, even when using half the amount suggested. So I like to give it a quick rinse. If this is an epic foul just let me know and my question will be null and void.
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