Took up beer brewing recently and found my municipal water causes a sour apple and vinegar taste that time doesn't resolve.
My brewer cohorts reviewed my city water report and blame chloramine, which doesn't boil away like chlorine.
Resorted to bottled water and campden tablets (bottled water can have chlorine and chloramine in it, too), and so far
the beer is a lot better.
I just use untreated city water for distilling and it makes one wonder why my liquor comes out so good!
Anyone here bother to treat their tap water for chlorine/chloramine and found it to be remarkably better for distilling?
I'm going to toss a campden tablet in the distilling water regardless from now on. Can't hurt.
Chlorine & Chloramine Treatment
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