So I was checking out my water report recently and was a little disappointed that almost all of the relevant brewing elements were left off of the quality report (everything except for Na+ and Ca2+). I finally called the water department today and left a message for the guy who is in charge of everything (only like 30k people in the suburb/city I'm in).
He calls me back and lo and behold I find out that he is a homebrewer! (if by some chance you're on HBT, good luck on the IPA). We talk for a little while and in addition to him offering to send me info on all of the unpublished ion/pH information (I guess technically it's published every 10 years or something), he offers to let me come down and pull water straight out of the city wells so I don't have to worry about dealing with any chlorine or chloramines.
Lesson learned. Just talk to people and you never know where you'll end up
He calls me back and lo and behold I find out that he is a homebrewer! (if by some chance you're on HBT, good luck on the IPA). We talk for a little while and in addition to him offering to send me info on all of the unpublished ion/pH information (I guess technically it's published every 10 years or something), he offers to let me come down and pull water straight out of the city wells so I don't have to worry about dealing with any chlorine or chloramines.
Lesson learned. Just talk to people and you never know where you'll end up
