High copper levels

[HeadStrong]

Hey guys I noticed recently that my tap water has high copper levels due to new pipes. It's so high that my cold water has a green/blue tint and hot water is blue. How is this going to effect my beer?

 

[BrewChem]

Bottled water is cheap... if you're worried about your water in ant way, go with bottled...

Are you drinking and cooking with it..?

 

[IslandLizard]

That's not healthy. There are ways to clean and pacify those pipes. It's usually old copper salt and mineral deposits that create the blue-green water. They do flush out eventually.

 

[HeadStrong]

Im definitely going with bottled water from now on. Old pipes? The city put new pipes in the street and that's when I noticed the colour change. Well really I only noticed the colour change when filling my primary bucket for sanitation that I couldn't rinse the blue out of it. I am only on my first batch so I've never filled a bucket with water to notice if this is a new problem or long running. My LHBS selling reverse osmosis water so I'll be using that from here on.