question about water used for yeast harvesting

[Oceanbear1]

Ok so I am probably over thinking this, but the area I recently moved to uses chloramines in the water, so to make sure my water doesn't have these, and because I wanted to control the salt levels, I used distilled/RO water for my batch.

so for the water I plan on using for harvesting the yeast, can I use the tap water with chloramines, or should I buy more distilled water and add salts to it.

Thanks in advance

 

[Gavin C]

Dont use any water

Harvest yeast the easy way.

Rack beer

Leave trub undisturbed

Swish it up and pour this slurry of trub and beer into sanitized vessels. It settles out over time like in the picture.

Refrigerate and use as needed.

On the chloramines. RO water has none as you rightly state. If you want to use your tap water they are easily elimitated at a cost of about $0.01 a batch with these. One tablet treats 20 gallons of typical chloraminated/chlorinated water. The reaction is instantaneous.

Campden Tablets (Sodium or Potassium Metabisulphite)

 

[laredo7mm]

I use boiled tap water and never worried about the salts. I don't think my water has chloramines, or if boiling drives them off if I do, but I have never had any issue with harvesting yeast or with freezing it in a glycerine and water solution.

For my brewing water, I add 0.5 grains (not grams) of K-Meta per gallon of water to de-chlorinate.