water

[Mark1964]

What is the bog standard water treatments that you use before you find out the state of your water.

 

[paulpj26]

It's pretty much boil your water before hand and add a tea spoon of gypsum.

You can make it as complicated or as simple as you want. If you want to look further into it there's loads of threads on this :thumb: :

 

[Mark1964]

no other additives at all then

 

[Tony]

Half a campden tab

 

[Good Ed]

You might find this useful

http://www.brupaks.com/brewing-aids.htm

but you would want some idea of your alkalinity in CaCO3

Good luck

 

[battwave]

Echoing Tony's suggestion of Campden, if you're unlucky enough to have Chloramine in your tap water it's an absolute essential for AG brewing. Unless, of-course, you take pleasure from gargling with TCP-flavoured beer :sick: