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Quote from: denny on January 17, 2015, 01:15:41 pmQuote from: flbrewer on January 17, 2015, 11:59:07 amDenny, thanks for that. For whatever reason I thought the water was WAY more important. I ended up paying over a dollar a gallon for distilled. Trust me, I'll be switching to tap water ASAP.Get an analysis of your tap water from ward Labs. But in general, if it tastes good it's close enough for a start. If you make a hoppy beer (APA, AIPA) toss a tsp. or so of gypsum in the kettle. You may find eventually that very light or very dark beers are better with some additions, but for now just worry about your brewing techniques. Of course, if your water has chlorine or chloramine you should remove it, but that's easy.I do have great tasting tap water, unfortunately it's running through a filter/ water softener unit. So I thought it may be better to use distilled w. the additions over that. What do you think?
Quote from: flbrewer on January 17, 2015, 11:59:07 amDenny, thanks for that. For whatever reason I thought the water was WAY more important. I ended up paying over a dollar a gallon for distilled. Trust me, I'll be switching to tap water ASAP.Get an analysis of your tap water from ward Labs. But in general, if it tastes good it's close enough for a start. If you make a hoppy beer (APA, AIPA) toss a tsp. or so of gypsum in the kettle. You may find eventually that very light or very dark beers are better with some additions, but for now just worry about your brewing techniques. Of course, if your water has chlorine or chloramine you should remove it, but that's easy.
Denny, thanks for that. For whatever reason I thought the water was WAY more important. I ended up paying over a dollar a gallon for distilled. Trust me, I'll be switching to tap water ASAP.