Lawrence Brewers Guild

What do people use to filter their brewing water? I've looked at several options, mostly whole-house jobbers or RV externals that I would rig to my garage wall or something.

To filter chlorines, I need a carbon filter, yes? And chloramines are also filtered using carbon but at a much slower flow rate. What does Lawrence use, chlorine or chloramine?

There is a water analysis link in the members only forum. I've never filtered mine, but I'm not doing all grain either.

whole house filter, .5 micron carbon filter. slow rate of flow through filter as the more time the
water is in contact with the carbon, the better it works. i usually go about 1/2 gal per minute.
extract or all grain, same process.

Are you sure you meant .5? Most household ones I see are 5 or 10 and .5 is damn near sterilization quality.

0.5 micron

Why .5 then? You're getting the sediment and bacteria (which the city should take care of anyway) but the dissolved mineral count of the water would be largely unaffected. I assume you use activated charcoal as well?

i am not trying to remove mineral content, only chlorine.
i also run a particulate filter in series after the carbon, as i have found that
carbon filters sometimes leak carbon into the waterstream. the whole thing
including the housings was a very small investment.
the thing i find that some dont do properly is to restrict the flow of water
through the filter, this allows contact time with the carbon, when you
look at the specs on the filters, that is how they achieve such high ratings of filtration.
i have caps that i slip on the quick connects after use and store it in my beer cooler
between uses without draining and drying.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Liquatec-10-Car ... 51b11b7937

Do we actually have chlorine in our water? For some reason, I'd thought we have chloramine. To my knowledge, the best way to deal with chloramine is with Campden tablets, rather than a filter. (Just what I'd read on homebrewtalk)

~Dean

The cheapest place I've found for water filter related items is:
http://purewaterclub.com/