Water Treatment and Concentrated Wort

[MyQul]

I think I know the answer to this but I'll ask anyway....

I make a concentrated wort then dilute it in my FV. For my bitters I've started using bottled water as my tap water is too hard for pale styles.

As I understand things I use the softer bottled water soI can get the mash PH (and possibly/probably the sparge too) into the right range. That being so when it comes to my water that I use to dilute the wort with it's doesn't really mattter if it's not soft enough does it? A bit like when you make up a kit, the water alkalinity doesn't matter? So I can use bottled (soft) water to mash and sparge and my harder tap water to dilute in the FV?

 

[duncans]

I haven't looked into boil and fermentation pH too much yet, so not an expert.

Right now i'd say it didn't matter about water hardness for dilution. I run concentrated batches too and always dilute with tap water at hardness of ~100ppm calcium and alkalinity of 250ppm carbonate.

Mash pH s end up around 5.2 - 5.4 when I am being careful.

 

[BeerCat]

Thats correct as far as i know within reason of course. Be interesting to hear what others have to say.
Fairly sure i often forget to add anything to my PH water and still getting decent pale ales.