Daveg
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Right chaps, my blasted head is spinning!
I live in Suffolk so I went to the eswater website typed my postcode in and it gave me what I already knew we're the results for very hard water 430mg/l CaCo3 and 172 mg/l Calcium. Next I downloaded a water report which was from 2011. Fair enough, but there was a couple of things not on there such as Magnesium so I emailed them. They replied with the information I needed. Now, within those figures was a figure for calcium, Average 12mg/l. Low 4 and high 20something. I'd already got a figure of 172mg/l !!!
What's that all about?
Along with this they sent me a more recent water report for this year and the figures I needed were practically double what they were off the report from last year, which is the one I would have used had I not emailed them.
Does everyone just take their water authorities results as read?
Unless I want to drink nothing but stout I need to sort this water out but it looks like I've got to set up my own lab just to make a consistently decent beer. Or am I over thinking things?
I live in Suffolk so I went to the eswater website typed my postcode in and it gave me what I already knew we're the results for very hard water 430mg/l CaCo3 and 172 mg/l Calcium. Next I downloaded a water report which was from 2011. Fair enough, but there was a couple of things not on there such as Magnesium so I emailed them. They replied with the information I needed. Now, within those figures was a figure for calcium, Average 12mg/l. Low 4 and high 20something. I'd already got a figure of 172mg/l !!!
What's that all about?
Along with this they sent me a more recent water report for this year and the figures I needed were practically double what they were off the report from last year, which is the one I would have used had I not emailed them.
Does everyone just take their water authorities results as read?
Unless I want to drink nothing but stout I need to sort this water out but it looks like I've got to set up my own lab just to make a consistently decent beer. Or am I over thinking things?
