cheap water- NOT

[PD]

according to a newspaper this morning. Tesco and Asda selling tap water as bottled water in their stores
at a mark up price of 2500 %

Thank you from all those that have carried their 5 + gallons home from the store believing they were adding to the quality of their brews.

 

[bobsbeer]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

[Muddydisco]

Del boy and Peckham spring come to mind :)

 

[Cononthebarber]

Cheeky buggers! :lol:

 

[dennisking]

Del boy and Peckham spring come to mind :)

Thought exactly the same when I heard it on the news.

 

[Cyclops]

I think Coca-Cola did the same thing a while ago, all they did was put it thought a UV filter.

 

[theboytony]

I think Coca-Cola did the same thing a while ago, all they did was put it thought a UV filter.

Is that the one that they had to take off the market because they buggered it up and were going to poison people

 

[Earpworm]

Alot of cheap bottled water is just tap water marked up ridiculously high. If the bottle doesn't mention the spring or source the water came from, it's probably from a tap, and it's perfectly legal.

 

[Sideboard]

Theres more regs for tap water than bottled. not sure what i'm saying here. so if the bottled water comes from the tap.....hmmm dunno.

 

[Swift Pint]

Isnt all bottled water tap water? Just that some comes from places with fancy names...

 

[PD]

whether its any better for you or not, they should advertise it as say " extra filtered tap water " not sneakily leave it next to genuine spring fed or what have you bottled water.
I bet if they did they would not sell as much.

 

[Davybarman]

So in this case we are better using tap water for our brews and treating and filtering as we want it.
:wha:

 

[Sideboard]

So in this case we are better using tap water for our brews and treating and filtering as we want it.
:wha:

just trying the quote thingy. might help me aim my comments

EDIT; It works,

 

[PD]

If your tap water is drinkable and doesn't taste of too much chlorine its perfectly fine for brew making if you want you can put a Campden tablet in it to help get rid of the chlorine taste before you use it.

 

[Sideboard]

You could get a water report from your local authority. You will see exactly whats in and whats not in your water and adjust accordingly. I find using half R.O water and half tap water for lager(to bring calcium levels down), and pure tap for darker beers. The adjucts in darker beers adjust the acidity where the R.O water in lager does.

 

[wilsoa1111]

Doesnt really surprise me tbh, i was trying to convince my flatmate of this a year ago that the "perthshire" mineral water they bought was the same as the water from our tap seemas we were next to the perthshire hills to no avail-i think its a combo of their filtering and branding tbh-mostly branding that affect the taste. As for brewing when bothered i would fling a campden tablet into an extracts brew water the day before but allgrain it gets boiled anyway and i dont think i have the chloramides in my water atm