Still_Holler Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Wondering if anyone out there has an opinion on hard vs soft water for whiskey at different steps in the process. i.e. mashing vs. cutting water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indyspirits Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 We use carbon filtered water for everything. According to our water company our water hardness is 23 grains / gallon. We do soften prior to our RO system and boiler (and dishwasher!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HottyToddy77 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 we have soft water and use it for our mashing. we use RO water for cutting water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still_Holler Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 Thanks for the feed back. The reason I ask. I have hard water from a spring and we have had no issue with our mashes with it, but I had a friend of a friend come in and he sets up water treatment systems for breweries. He was saying brewers like soft for some types of beer and hard for others. He said could set me up a softener with a bypass so I could try mash with soft and mash with hard and compare. I know he would like to sell me a softener so not to keen on taking the time to mess with it unless I can find any evidence it would be helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silk City Distillers Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Humans drink beer, yeast drink mash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcb Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Given that your untreated water is not too hard and your calcium concentration is around 50ppm, that would be perfect. I would not recommend mashing with RO, as it would be free is crucial ions required for mashing. However, for cutting i would recommend RO. As certain ions can form precipitates that can form non reversible haze! KCB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starcat Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 As an aside, Ion Exchange Softened water makes really BAD Coffee, yet every expresso machine make will tell you they want their unit on " Soft Water." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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