I have been wondering what our water profile was for a bit and the results just came in tonight. Looks like our water is hard enough to cut diamonds and alkali enough that it might be better suited as battery acid.
Anyways, plugging the numbers into beersmith and ez water calculator I don't think we can ever pull the numbers down enough without a pre-boil or adding sulfuric acid.
Tell me what you all suggest. Trying to run 40 gallon batches so buying a ton of distilled water is going to be high.
Duster Tx well water: from Ward Laboratories
pH 7.2
Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm 1122
Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 1.87
Cations / Anions, me/L / 19.818.7
Sodium, Na 119
Potassium, K 8
Calcium, Ca 173
Magnesium, Mg 56
Total Hardness, CaCO3 666
Nitrate, NO3-N 7.2 (SAFE)
Sulfate, SO4-S 28
Chloride, Cl 358
Carbonate, CO3 < 1
Bicarbonate, HCO3 450
Total Alkalinity, CaCO3 369
Fluoride, F 0.32
Total Iron, Fe < 0.01
"<" - Not Detected / Below Detection Limit
Anyways, plugging the numbers into beersmith and ez water calculator I don't think we can ever pull the numbers down enough without a pre-boil or adding sulfuric acid.
Tell me what you all suggest. Trying to run 40 gallon batches so buying a ton of distilled water is going to be high.
Duster Tx well water: from Ward Laboratories
pH 7.2
Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm 1122
Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 1.87
Cations / Anions, me/L / 19.818.7
Sodium, Na 119
Potassium, K 8
Calcium, Ca 173
Magnesium, Mg 56
Total Hardness, CaCO3 666
Nitrate, NO3-N 7.2 (SAFE)
Sulfate, SO4-S 28
Chloride, Cl 358
Carbonate, CO3 < 1
Bicarbonate, HCO3 450
Total Alkalinity, CaCO3 369
Fluoride, F 0.32
Total Iron, Fe < 0.01
"<" - Not Detected / Below Detection Limit