Water????
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 7:01 am
OK, I have one more question brought around by my last post question. I want to qualify it by stating that I have looked and looked hard but maybe not in the right place.
Is there anything out here or any where else that discusses distilling water? Does it matter? When I first started out in brewing, I had some terrible fails and to make a long story short it turned out to be my well water. I went to RO and using Brewers Friend's water calculator added the salts to turn out a pretty good product. I am now wondering if I am shooting myself in the foot carrying this over into distillation? I have noticed several recipes stating to add gypsum to a mix almost arbitrarily. In the beer world to much gypsum (SO4) can give you the squirts???? Am I adding to my own misery? Does water make that much difference to distilling, particularly in bourbon?
Thanks to everyone who responded to my conversion question!!!!!!
Is there anything out here or any where else that discusses distilling water? Does it matter? When I first started out in brewing, I had some terrible fails and to make a long story short it turned out to be my well water. I went to RO and using Brewers Friend's water calculator added the salts to turn out a pretty good product. I am now wondering if I am shooting myself in the foot carrying this over into distillation? I have noticed several recipes stating to add gypsum to a mix almost arbitrarily. In the beer world to much gypsum (SO4) can give you the squirts???? Am I adding to my own misery? Does water make that much difference to distilling, particularly in bourbon?
Thanks to everyone who responded to my conversion question!!!!!!