Water added to kits

[minimilo]

Hello,

After making a couple kits and being quite impressed so far I have been thinking of how I can improve things. The obvious thing to me would be the water due to the amount that goes into the beer. Do any of you treat or filter your water when making up Kit brews? I live in Wiltshire which is a hard water area.

Cheers

[mickhew]

I'm near Hastings, and the water is hard here, and all is well. If you are impressed already, stick with normal I'd say. Depends on what improvements you're looking for?. I've only heard of people using Campden tablets, or different water, when it's actually caused a problem/funny taste. I use water straight from the mains.

[Jerry Cornelius]

Kits don't need water treatment - except to remove chlorine and chloramine (if it's giving you a TCP-like taste). Crush a campden tablet between two spoons and drop half the resultant powder into 5 gallons.

[minimilo]

Kits don't need water treatment - except to remove chlorine and chloramine (if it's giving you a TCP-like taste). Crush a campden tablet between two spoons and drop half the resultant powder into 5 gallons.

I think I will try adding a campden tablet in my next kit just to see. Thanks