hey guys, I have a quick question. I'm brewing right now, and I have a beer that'll be 1.060 gravity. I intend to top up with some bottled water to get it down to 1.050 and to increase final volume.
do you think bottled water could infect the beer? is there a way to sanitize it somehow without boiling it? do you think if I add some pottasium metabisulfite to it - would it be ok?
how it would affect the fermentation process if I add it to the wort sanitized with pottasium metabisulfite before pitching the yeast?
thanks
top up water
Re: top up water
Given the timing of your post and the fact that you were brewing then, I guess this'll be too late, but...
Bottled water should be fine, indeed tap water is fine in most cases. After all, most kit brewers use plain tap water to dilute and cool their wort before pitching yeast. The only issue I can think of is chlorine/chloramine. Obviously this isn't an issue if you use bottled water, and I never bothered about it before I started AG brewing.
just my 2 penn'orth
GTI
Bottled water should be fine, indeed tap water is fine in most cases. After all, most kit brewers use plain tap water to dilute and cool their wort before pitching yeast. The only issue I can think of is chlorine/chloramine. Obviously this isn't an issue if you use bottled water, and I never bothered about it before I started AG brewing.
just my 2 penn'orth
GTI
Drinking: Kriek (cherry beer); prohibition coconut rum; Davey's Best Bitter 2 (AG); TC; Mead; Gorse Wine; Darwin's summer ale; Apple wine
Conditioning: Grape wine 2009 & 2010; Pomegranate and cherry wine
Brewing: Vinojay (orange wine); Vino de tavola - rosso
Planning: Newton's Porter
Gone but not forgotten: Mead; Framboos (Kit); Gorse wine;
Conditioning: Grape wine 2009 & 2010; Pomegranate and cherry wine
Brewing: Vinojay (orange wine); Vino de tavola - rosso
Planning: Newton's Porter
Gone but not forgotten: Mead; Framboos (Kit); Gorse wine;