Sadfield
Landlord.
Ignore it, you don't live there.Just to muddy the water further Essex & Suffolk water have issued new report for 2022 -
Ignore it, you don't live there.Just to muddy the water further Essex & Suffolk water have issued new report for 2022 -
'Cos I'm hopeless at following my own advice about daft "Hardness", here's a bit more to explain the "footnote" above ......
[EDIT: Not wanting to mislead: "Total Hardness" isn't just Calcium and Magnesium ... it's all the multi-valent metal ions. But in drinking water the "others" amount to an insignificant amount ... Stop it! I said ignore "Hardness" so I shouldn't keep babbling about it!]
On the testing list, liquor analysis?Not sure they still do
Right. Time for a bit more ranting then!... Hopefully get back to this at the weekend
If you are very, very, careful ... you can use scissors to cut the rubber band. Face returns to proper colour quite quickly.One could go blue in the face thinking about permanent hardness...
But @DJDave would be crazy to do that! His water contains about 130 ppm miscellaneous salts (about as much as my "soft" water) and a little less than that in "Alkalinity" (calcium bicarbonate mainly) which will come in handy for brewing. You will have to add salts and Alkalinity to your "RO" water, after you've assumed what salts are left in the water after the RO process, which will be very variable, highly dependent on the state of the RO membranes (which you have no control over if buying "spotless water") and the state of the source water. (You won't be able to use "calcium bicarbonate" for adjusting "Alkalinity" 'cos you can't buy it!).Get yourself Brewfather and let the app do the work for you. I start with RO from spotless water
Spotless water has nothing in it at least nothing to make a difference then I just build with salts and carbonates up to the profile I want. Puts me in the ballpark which is could enough. Essex tap water is super hard
Say "No!" to reporting "as CaCO3"!
Yes for you it is possibly the best way to go, but for those of us with soft and low alkalinity water it is just not worth doing. Simple enough to just add the correct salts.
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