Water...

Every time these kinda threads pop up it reenforces that I should not ever try and home brew.

 

Alternatively, definitely try home brewing, and make sure to read John Palmer's book called "Water: A Comprehensive Guide" as one of your learning tools. Very fun hobby, and with a little learning and a little care you can make great beer right at home.

 

Lol, I’m too careless and sloppy to try and brew beer. I’d have a better shot with farmhouse ales at least if it had some bugs it still might work. Ones got to know their limitations, and I know mine, sounds like a Dirty Harry quote. I’ve had some really good home brew, most not so much.

 

Geez, I thought I was a water nerd before I showed up on BA 5 years ago...

 

Palmer's water book is for the advanced course on water. There is enough Chemistry that it is a dry read.

 

Most Samuel Smith beers use well water with a strong mineral taste/bitterness. They make some otherwise incredible beers which are totally ruined by the minerals IMHO. Same thing for Xingu.

 

Blasphemy

 

It wouldn’t surprise me if this is why I don’t care for a lot of DC local breweries. The water here is all chlorinated, fluoridated post-treatment swamp water.

 

LOL!

The brewers will at a minimum be treating to remove the chlorine/chloramine (e.g., multi stage block carbon filter). Probably doing more than that too.

Cheers!

 

It’s pretty easy with modern chemistry techniques to replicate the exact specifications of water from one location to the other. Most breweries who contract brew, or have multiple locations where they brew the same beer, are big enough that they would easily have the resources to do this, and I imagine most all do.

 

That may be the driest book out of all of the homebrewing books I own, and also the second most important. Go figure.

 

As an aside, most people don't realize that unless a bottled water states otherwise, it's tap water from whatever city it's produced in. Most folks assume it's highly filtered magical springwater or something. And what's up with the expiration date on bottled water????

 

What are we? Vodka?

 

Like most posters already said, with science you can make any water correct for the beer you are brewing.

 

Rum

 

There's a reason no one has ever written a book called Having Fun With Chemistry. That's the subject that flunked me out of college.

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007DUX98/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_MYdvFbP0D10Q9

 

Oops, you got me.