I'm about to try brewing beer from a kit. Our tapwater is fairly hard, but the house has a water softener (*) for one of the kitchen taps.Is it better to use hard water, as it is supplied, or to use water from the softener? I can't detect any difference in taste of water from the normal or softened tap.(*) One of those inline cylindrical ones that is fitted with compression fittings into a branch of copper piping off the rising main.

Depends on the brew. I know for a fact that Greene King purify their local water, then add back in all the minerals present in the brewing water of the brewerys they bought out in the past, to recreate the proper flavour of the corresponding beers/ales.If you live in Burton on Trent I guess you use it neat and untouched!

Home brewed beer - hard or softened water?

May 07, 2020 Last reply: 6 years ago 21 Replies

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alan_m 6 years ago

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Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) 6 years ago

Was there not somebody using rain water suitable zapped with uv or something? I don't drink so only heard it in passing. Brian

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