BansheeRider
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Anybody in Sanoma County, California have a water profile report? Their website is horrible and doesn't say squat.
I know this is a long shot
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Does this help (2011 has results, 2012 seems to be broken)? http://ci.santa-rosa.ca.us/departments/utilities/h2o/h2oquality/agency/Pages/default.aspx
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Are you in Sanoma county? I live in Petaluma not Santa Rosa, however, the water source is the same. I am new at AG so this report looks foreign to me. From your experience does anything look out of the norm in regards to home brewing with this water profile? Thanks for the link by the way
Just call your water district. They should give you the weekly report over the phone. Just when you call 1 tell them your a homebrewer! This ALWAYS helps. and 2 have a list of what you want to know. Makes it simple and then they know you at least have a clue what your asking.
At least it always works for me. I used to call once a year when I was brewing here at my house. Then found out I could call every Tuesday if I wanted..
Hope that helps..
Cheers
Jay
At least it always works for me. I used to call once a year when I was brewing here at my house. Then found out I could call every Tuesday if I wanted..
Hope that helps..
Cheers
Jay
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Cool thanks that does help. I was looking at Ward Labs and they want $39 for a water sample test kit for homebrewers :0 I'll call my water district and see what they can do. Thanks!
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...except when you can get it for free by making a phone call
This ^^ $39 is 10 gallons of beer
Wow - prices for water testing went up. I paid about $20 a year ago for a full water report.
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I actually just recently called my water dept. to get a more detailed report than what was published online. Long story short, the guy in charge of water quality turned out to be a homebrewer as well and offered to let me come by and pull water straight from the deep wells (before chlorination) for my brewing.
Water testing definitely has its place, but it is always worth asking first.
Water testing definitely has its place, but it is always worth asking first.
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Pulling up a very old thread but I'm looking at the Petaluma water report and it lists out "Total Hardness at 174ppm". When I do my conversions, I have Calcium at 70ppm (seems good) and Magnesium at 42ppm (Very High). Is this correct or did I pull a bad conversion calculation? Thanks for any help.
Hardness is, in practical terms, a measure of the combined quantity of calcium and magnesium. It can be expressed in several ways, the most common is the quantity of CaCO3 which would provide equivalent hardness.
It seems that is what is provided, and if so, 70ppm calcium OR 42ppm magnesium would provide all of that quantity of hardness. Therefore, it is likely that water would have less than 70ppm calcium and a relatively smaller amount of magnesium, determined by the mineral content of the strata where the water is collected or stored.
Potentially that water could contain 66ppm calcium and 2.3 magnesium, but analysis would determine the actual quantities.
