Dilute or start from scratch?

[Chris_Primavera]

Bru n' Water seems to indicate a 60% dilution with distilled water will get my Mg numbers in an acceptable range. Should I dilute or start from scratch with RO?

Sodium, Na 80

Potassium, K 6

Calcium, Ca 119

Magnesium, Mg 53

Total Hardness, CaCO3 518

Nitrate, NO3-N 3.0 (SAFE)

Sulfate, SO4-S 9

Chloride, Cl 273

Carbonate, CO3 < 1.0

Bicarbonate, HCO3 373

Total Alkalinity, CaCO3 306

Total Phosphorus, P 0.02

Total Iron, Fe < 0.01

 

[Gavin C]

Your water has crazy amounts of minerals. I would go RO all the way.

 

[mabrungard]

For some brewing, you could be better off in starting with pure RO. But there will be times where you could use that mineralization of the raw water. Its not a throw-away water, but its close.