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Mopar Redneck · Post by **Mopar Redneck** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:23 pm

Help me understand thsi one: If you can distill water to use in your wash, and you can use commercially distilled water to make your wash: If you are running teh whoile works anyway, what difference does it make? Why doesn't the distillation of the wash serve do the same thing?

Post by **Dnderhead** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:43 pm

I cant quite figure out what you are asking
but most people don't use distilled water in wash
and distilling wash removes alcohol

Post by **HookLine** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:49 pm

Why you wanna used distilled water in the wash?

tracker0945 · Post by **tracker0945** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:25 pm

You get distilled water by condensing the vapour obtained from boiling plain water.
After you distill a wash, you are not left with distilled water in your pot. You have water plus all the leftover yeast, nutrients, plus anything else you happened to tip in the fermenter.

If that is what you were asking.

highball · Post by **highball** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:55 pm

At least he named the post correctly

BW Redneck · Post by **BW Redneck** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:34 pm

Unless your water is really, really, stinky or has enough iron to tint it bright orange, then I wouldn't bother with distilled water.
Cuttin' with it, that's a different story, and is still argued about occasionally.

Old_Blue · Post by **Old_Blue** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:02 pm

MOPAR,

You are correct that while distilling wash you are distilling the water at the same time. The reason some might use distilled water in their wash is that they have stuff in their water that might cause off flavors in the finished wash that might carry over. I'm lucky that I have the sweetest well water that anyone could ever want and can skip that problem.

If you can make great tasting beer or wine with your water, don't worry about it.

Ricky · Post by **Ricky** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:10 pm

what ole blue said. some people use distilled water for there ferment because theyre water is not suitable. therefore when they distill the wash the water that comes through is in a sense double distilled. if you have good,nonchlorinated well water i would not worry about it. some people claim that distilled water will dehydrate you but im not sure about that. i do know that some type of processed water will dehydrate you but which one slips my mine at the moment. could be the whiskey talking!

BW Redneck · Post by **BW Redneck** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:24 pm

Both of the above are right. I live on the top of the highest hill around, so my well water doesn't get all of the crap that washes down through the aquifer. Even though I'm on a sandstone aquifer (I think) I don't get much iron. The people at the bottom of the same hill have iron out the wazoo.
If you're on a lime aquifer, you're set. Not much iron in those.

Post by **Dnderhead** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:29 pm

There is nothing wrong with drinking distilled water
they do it on ships all the time but one should take
supplemental minerals

Ricky · Post by **Ricky** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:32 pm

dnderhead ,i dont mean to rub your fur the rong way ,but if there is nuthing rong with distilled water why take the mineral supplement?

Post by **Dnderhead** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:57 pm

well and spring water has minerals ,part of your mineral
intake comes from it ,distilled doesn't so it suggested you
take supplement

Ricky · Post by **Ricky** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:58 pm

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