Bend, OR Water Profile

[DKershner]

Have tried some various sources to get the local water profile for this area, and was wondering if anyone else around here had an idea, or maybe just what treatments you use in various beers.

I suppose I could ask one of the water companies or Deschutes...but you guys are just easier to ask.

 

[Netflyer]

Many of us send our water to an AG lab:

http://www.wardlab.com/

and we get back a detailed water report we can use to figure out how much we need to tweek our brewing water to get where it needs to be.

Brewing water is not a simple conversation, not that it is that hard but it is fairly detailed.

Look at the Brew Science forum here and check out the sticky on brewing water adjustments and start reading

As far as talking to local water co's and getting your water, that is good too but.. well I'm a proponent of testing your water before you tweek it each time but that requires a water testing lab. See, water changes seasonally, the actual changes we make to brew are in part per millions so they are very small tweeks, a gram here an a gram there in several gallons of water. If our starting water profile has changed due to seasonal changes the same gram of calcium chloride salt can have very different results at different times of the year.

Breweries have their water tested or test it themselves frequently so they can change the way they are tweeking their water in order to brew consistent beer.

 

[BendBrewer541]

My experience with water supplies in Bend is that they can vary greatly depending partly on the well it comes from and also what treatment the City of Bend is doing at the time. I know that when we do water chemical treatment for our hot water and steam boilers at work, the chemistry changes all the time, partially due to the changing city water.