Has my boil kettle been poisoning me for 2 years?

[augiedoggy]

Lots of kitchen faucets are brass...my guess would be that the lead exposure from brass fittings in your brew pot is between miniscule and zero.

yes but the water in those lines is not acidic and you are not supposed to consume water form the hot side of the plumbing anyway..

 

[heckels]

yes but the water in those lines is not acidic and you are not supposed to consume water form the hot side of the plumbing anyway..

I thought the recommendation to not consume water from the hot side comes more from what could be in your water heater. Specifically, in older homes where they may not have been replaced recently.


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[snowtires]

My tap water has uranium in it.

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[augiedoggy]

I thought the recommendation to not consume water from the hot side comes more from what could be in your water heater. Specifically, in older homes where they may not have been replaced recently.


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actually many of the newer heaters and tankless heaters are now made in china and rebranded and distributed by big names (big surprise) anyway they often have a warning right on them or in the literature that they are not to be used for potable water.... I can only assume this is because of lead or other heavy metals used in the heat exchanger...

in an old hot water tank you are completely correct that they are full of sand ,rust and all sort of nasty sediment.

 

[augiedoggy]

My tap water has uranium in it.

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so does most... it is a natural element... its the levels that matter.

This is the kind of stuff the culligan man will try to use as a scare tactic to get you to give up your left nut for a water system....

The truth is though that legal limits are the only thing municipalities look at even though the levels may be well above whats considered "healthy"...
Just another one of those things in life that contribute to health issues that eventually effect all of us... if its not one thing..

 

[processhead]

Risk is a constant in life.

Risk can be high or low, but it is never zero.

Think about the risk of what your doing when you brew, and then compare it to all the other schit you do in your life.

IMO, brewing is pretty darned safe.

 

[63belair]

This is a 3 year old thread. OP are you still alive?

 

[augiedoggy]

This is a 3 year old thread. OP are you still alive?

lol I only posted because people are still drawing off of it for information...

Totally true in regards to everything having risk....
I guess if it comes down to using a brass ball valve or spending $7 on a stainless one from ebay or amazon why not go the safer route?
your probably fine either way as with not wearing a seatbelt but if you have the choice and its an easy one why not take the better one?

we take bigger chances everyday eating mas produced foods...especially those coming from overseas...

Good example is the "beef" being distributed in frozen meals by aldi's that actually turned out to be Horsemeat (not that horsemeat is bad for you but still you just dont know what your getting these days) people that consume a lot of chocolate usually do so completely unaware of the amount of rat feces usually found in cocoa and what the legal "safe limit" is allow by the FDA.... sometimes Ignorance is Bliss...

 

[djt17]

I am REALLY sorry I resurrected this thread; I just thought Post #29 was funnier then $h!t

 

[BrewerinBR]

Please do not any of you remember that LEAD WAS BANNED in the 70's.... and by the 90's all brass plumbing fixtures had to be lead free. If you purchased your brass plumbing fittings in the last 10 years then THEY HAVE NO LEAD!!!

Allow me to correct myself
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ380/pdf/PLAW-111publ380.pdf

No grand fathering so they can no longer be sold as of 4JAN14

But I have been purchasing them for years at Lowes and I always look for the LEAD FREE label