Water treatment in West Oxfordshire

[paulgough]

Calling all grain brewers in West Oxfordshire.

I'm just preparing for a brew day at the weekend sand thought I might dip my toe into the ugly subject of water treatment.

Does anyone local have any tips for success?

 

[calumscott]

I did start to look into it...

...but the Thames Water report from the website is missing some key data. My Higher Chemistry is a bit rusty but I think I got close to what the calculator up there ^^^^^ button, top left, needed.

Then I gave up because it all looked like quite a lot of faff and I just wanted to get a brew on!

PM me your email address and I'll send you over the water report if you like (or you can download it from the Thames Water site...)

 

[paulgough]

Cheers Calum.

I'll let you know how I get on.

 

[calumscott]

Might even be worth dropping them a line, see if they can dig up the bits of the report that are missing for the calculator?

I did try googling for it once to no avail...

...there are a couple of other WestOx brewers on here, SlateMiner is up Woodstock way, Pastor of Muppets (brilliant screen name) over in Burford and a few others. Can't quite remember who's AG though...

 

[dodsi]

Surely the abstraction point of the water would give varying properties and how it could be blended.

essentially in a specfic catchment your freshwater could come from numerous sources (river, boreholes, resevoir) and then in the next catchment different sources (essentially different towns it will be different properties).

 

[Pakman]

Not sure about West Oxon but here in the East we get our water from Farmoor - and I just use it as is. :sick:

Graham :

 

[paulgough]

Thanks.

Have just done a brew without any treatment.

Will let you know how it goes.