ljforster701
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I'm getting ready to do my first AG recipe. Is distilled water ok to use? Just want to get through my first recipe to get the basics down. Thanks in advance.
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If you have city water, I would use that and treat with campden tablets, you don't want to lose all the minerals in the water, just the chlorine. If you do want to use bottled water, I would go with spring or purified water, not distilled
Distilled water is fine for use as a starting point, but you should add calcium via a gypsum or calcium chloride addition. See the Water Primer sticky in the Brewing Science forum. A more thorough discussion is presented on the Water Knowledge page of the Bru'n Water website.
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