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Default It's the water, right?
(Scott Dorsey) writes:

>Lewis Perin > wrote:
>>Indeed. On the other hand...I need to apologize. I€„¢ve done a bit more
>>web searching on the topic of iron in water, and the more I looked the
>>more it seemed 40mg/liter was an outlier. So I checked back at that NYC
>>water quality report, and iron€„¢s denominated in *micro*grams.
>
>Try the Burton's then... add it until you can taste it. When you can taste
>it you've used too much.

OK, I went over to Brooklyn Homebrew yesterday evening and laid down 75
cents for a baggie of Burton/Trent salts. They didnt have
documentation that would let me figure out the milligrams of each ion
per gram of the powder, but they did say they recommend that brewers use
30g per 5 gallons. So I decided to try 1 gram per liter.

So far, so good, I must say. Ive brewed 3 different teas today that
Im extremely familiar with: Sikkim Temi, a not-so-great Phoenix oolong,
and a pretty good Alishan oolong. They all came out significantly
better than Ive experienced with filtered NYC tap water alone. To
varying extents with the 3 teas Ive noticed improvements in aroma,
taste, and mouth feel. And my wife says her coffee tastes a lot better
with the mineral-doped water, too.

/Lew
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