Help with Stinky water!

[BrothersBrewing]

So with all this rain in the NE my water(well) has gotten the rotten egg smell other wise known as Hydrogen sulfide. I normal have hard water but i have a softener. ive shocked my well before using a chlorine bleach product ment for reducing the smell.

Does anybody know of a filter type widget or what not i can use with my brew water. id like to mount to my rig in some way.

Cheers

 

[wyzazz]

Mine's the same way, I use bottled water when it gets like that. You might try whole house carbon filter, to see if that gets the smell out of the finished product.

 

[Pick]

Sounds like a Reverse Osmosis might be your best bet. But, you could try a charcoal type filter. Those are usually good at taking out odors.

 

[willynilly]

Walmart, 1 gallon jugs. 50% spring, 50% distilled is a pretty reasonable mix. Sorry about the water, sounds like my parents water when I was growing up!

 

[david_42]

Try an activated charcoal filter first. Relatively inexpensive. And bypass the softener, salt isn't good for brewing.

 

[Toga]

I live in an area where we have really hard water. Lots of rust. I have a softner that is set to it's bare mininum setting to filter out the rust. We use a whole house sediment filter that flows into the softener, then the softner, then a seperate under sink carbon filter for drinking water and cooking. The undersink filter is made by OmniFilters. It does a bang up job cleaning up the remaining water flavor I find to be undesireable.

http://www.omni-water-filters.org/countertop_oct2.htm

 

[brewmonk]

does it off-gas if you let it sit in an open or cheeseclothed HLT?

 

[dirtdigger]

I live in an area where we have really hard water. Lots of rust. I have a softner that is set to it's bare mininum setting to filter out the rust. We use a whole house sediment filter that flows into the softener, then the softner, then a seperate under sink carbon filter for drinking water and cooking. The undersink filter is made by OmniFilters. It does a bang up job cleaning up the remaining water flavor I find to be undesireable.

http://www.omni-water-filters.org/countertop_oct2.htm

Have the same problem. We use the Omni wholehouse filter with the carbon cartridge to feed the softner. Being on a well, I also installed a UV unit to sterilize, post-filter. This is just to be on the safe side. The carbon filter takes the sulfur oder/taste out. We have to change the cartridge every other week.
Pretty bad water.
Our drinking water tap isn't softened. For brewing, I use half from the drinking tap and half bottled water.

 

[BrothersBrewing]

So i did some searching. I just ordered a whole house filter. 80$shipped 10,000gal lifespan+-

WaterFilters.NET

Kinetic Degradation Fluxion (KDF) is a high-purity copper-zinc formulation that uses a basic chemical process known as redox (oxidation/reduction) to remove chlorine, lead, mercury, iron, and hydrogen sulfide from water supplies. The process also has a mild anti-bacterial, algaecitic, and fungicitic, effect and may reduce the accumulation of lime scale.