Cutting spirit run, water confusion

[blklotus49]

So I've been lurking on here for a few months now, made only one post but learned a lot from this site. So glad you're all out there!

Anyways, I'm about 4 days out on doing my first real run here. Still is coming along, cleaning run is ready to go and my first run of sugar wash is almost finished fermenting. However, I've been up and down this forum and even tried to search but I can't find any information about what sort of water I should use to cut my final product with? It might be that it doesn't matter too much, but I have to ask.

I have very clean city water but it does have a slight taste to it, so I wonder if this could effect my final product. I can get de-mineralized water, I can also get well water. But really I have no idea if it even matters that much. Any help on this one is appreciated. I'll keep you all posted on my first run, I'm pretty excited!

[Odin]

Brita filtered water works very well.

[Sungy]

Not sure if this applies but when I made my fist batch of Birdwatchers I used distilled water for dilution. The mistake I made was to pour all my product into a large stainless pot then dumped in water to dilute to 60 % ABV for aging. This caused a chemical reaction and the product went cloudy. (not what ya want on your first run) According to the research I did this is because the water was shocked causing the remaining minerals to precipitate out. From what I read the correct process is to add the water to the container first then slowly add the product. ( the temperature of both fluids should be the same.)

From the posts I read the bottled water vs tap water debate. Most believe its the same stuff in both. Im going to try dilution this afternoon on batch 2 of birdwatchers using tap water( very clean around here)

[Braz]

My preference is distilled water. Others like reverse osmosis purified water. With tap, well or spring water you can get mineral precipitation when mixed with alcohol. Or maybe not, it depends on what is in the water and at what levels. Using distilled takes one more variable out of the equation.

I buy it in 2.5 gallon containers and the emptys are handy for all sorts of things.

[Mr.Brown]

I use tap. I have used bottled in the past and can't tell a difference between that and my tap water. Probably depends on your local water source though. I know in some areas, the tap water is not very good.