Which bottled water

[Dyer]

hi all
for my next brew I am going to use bottled water as our water is quite hard ,and I would rather do that than use a camden tablet.My question is this ,does it matter if I use still or carbonated and is there a difference.
thanks
Duncan

[Mogwyth]

I always use Asda Eden Falls still water.I wouldn't use fizzy.

[boingy]

Asda Smartprice Still Water is the water most often recommended on here. Not tried it myself though.

BTW, the camden tablet is to remove the chlorines and chloromines from the tap water. Nothing to do with hardness. Hard water can brew some superb ales. It all depends what style of beer you are brewing.

[escapizm]

Asda's own 2litre is about 13p a bottle, last i bought 18 bottles though it came thro till as 7p!!!, just add gypsum or burton salts and your in business.

Cant see me treating my tap water in the neat future as this is hassle free.

[Spring Heeled Jim]

Do the supermarkets use the same quality PETs for still water that they do for sparkling?

They double up nicely for bottling if they can handle the pressure?

[sonicated]

Do the supermarkets use the same quality PETs for still water that they do for sparkling?

They double up nicely for bottling if they can handle the pressure?

Tesco's do. So does ASDA but they use smaller caps which do hold pressure but they rise a little in the middle so I don't use them.

[surista]

We get water delivered to our home from here. My wife loves it. The water tastes great, and having the cooler means always having fresh water, both chilled and heated. Great for drinking or cooking. A 19-litre bottle is £6, or about 30p. Asda's still water looks pretty darn cheap, but for us we have it delivered to our door, storage isn't an issue, and I don't have to deal with 10 1-litre bottles <g>.

We've been really really happy with the company and the service.

[Lillywhite]

hi all
for my next brew I am going to use bottled water as our water is quite hard .......

There is nothing wrong with hard water for brewing and that's why Burton-on-Trent became the centre of British brewing 200 years ago.

Most breweries now 'Burtonize' their water.

[sargie]

We get water delivered to our home from here. My wife loves it. The water tastes great, and having the cooler means always having fresh water, both chilled and heated. Great for drinking or cooking. A 19-litre bottle is £6, or about 30p. Asda's still water looks pretty darn cheap, but for us we have it delivered to our door, storage isn't an issue, and I don't have to deal with 10 1-litre bottles <g>.

We've been really really happy with the company and the service.

jesus thats expensive £120 for insurance and maintainence of the cooler and £6 for 18.9 litres of water if you do 1 brew a month thats £72 per year so £192 just for the water to make your beer ouch No doubt you drink the water too so you would probably get through more.

[EoinMag]

Carbonated will contain carbonic acid, so it'll be more acidic than normal water. Not so sure you want that.

[Mogwyth]

We get water delivered to our home from here. My wife loves it. The water tastes great, and having the cooler means always having fresh water, both chilled and heated. Great for drinking or cooking. A 19-litre bottle is £6, or about 30p. Asda's still water looks pretty darn cheap, but for us we have it delivered to our door, storage isn't an issue, and I don't have to deal with 10 1-litre bottles <g>.

Asda Eden Falls is 97p for 5 litres of water and a free demijohn

Cheers

Bill

[Dyer]

Cheers for the replies of to asda it is then.
Duncan

[surista]

We get water delivered to our home from here. My wife loves it. The water tastes great, and having the cooler means always having fresh water, both chilled and heated. Great for drinking or cooking. A 19-litre bottle is £6, or about 30p. Asda's still water looks pretty darn cheap, but for us we have it delivered to our door, storage isn't an issue, and I don't have to deal with 10 1-litre bottles <g>.

We've been really really happy with the company and the service.

jesus thats expensive £120 for insurance and maintainence of the cooler and £6 for 18.9 litres of water if you do 1 brew a month thats £72 per year so £192 just for the water to make your beer ouch No doubt you drink the water too so you would probably get through more.

Yeah - we go through about two 19-litre bottles a week, so it does get a bit spendy - we obviously drink a lot straight, and we use it for coffee (me) and tea (the Much Better Half). MBH also uses it for cooking quite a bit. But neither of us like the tap water we get, and I hate hauling bottles of water around from the store and storing them (a definite hassle when we drink so much). We always have chilled or heated water, it takes up zero space in our refrigerator (which is too small as it is to fit in all the beer I want to fit in <g>), and it's MBH-Approved, constant supply of good beer water

Our dog drinks the tap water tho; he can't touch the expensive stuff until he stops drinking out of the toilet

[sargie]

We get water delivered to our home from here. My wife loves it. The water tastes great, and having the cooler means always having fresh water, both chilled and heated. Great for drinking or cooking. A 19-litre bottle is £6, or about 30p. Asda's still water looks pretty darn cheap, but for us we have it delivered to our door, storage isn't an issue, and I don't have to deal with 10 1-litre bottles <g>.

We've been really really happy with the company and the service.

jesus thats expensive £120 for insurance and maintainence of the cooler and £6 for 18.9 litres of water if you do 1 brew a month thats £72 per year so £192 just for the water to make your beer ouch No doubt you drink the water too so you would probably get through more.

Yeah - we go through about two 19-litre bottles a week, so it does get a bit spendy - we obviously drink a lot straight, and we use it for coffee (me) and tea (the Much Better Half). MBH also uses it for cooking quite a bit. But neither of us like the tap water we get, and I hate hauling bottles of water around from the store and storing them (a definite hassle when we drink so much). We always have chilled or heated water, it takes up zero space in our refrigerator (which is too small as it is to fit in all the beer I want to fit in <g>), and it's MBH-Approved, constant supply of good beer water

Our dog drinks the tap water tho; he can't touch the expensive stuff until he stops drinking out of the toilet

If i didnt have 4 little drains on the resources i would defo cosider it but as it stands council pop it is ive yet to taste a brew that has a tcp taste to it anyway.

[Dyer]

Have just done a woodefords wherry using asda spring water ,finding it hard to believe that its going to be better than the just conditioned woodefords wherry i am drinking quite alot of at the moment.
Duncan