Water Analysis

[sub82]

NI water now offer an automated water profile just by typing in your post code!

Water Profile

[Roo]

Thanks. My water is just like me.....moderately hard.

[Bazza]

Thanks. My water is just like me.....moderately hard.

That sounds so wrong to these ears 

Good find, Chris.

-Barry 'slightly hard' McBazza

[Will_D]

Great service from niwater.com !!

Just entered my NI Parcel Motel post code and can download the water analysis.

Just need to persuade PM to ship me their water!!

Seriuosly tho', great support from ye're water company!

Need I say owt about our .ie new Water Company?!

[robotmonkey]

Nice one! Moderately hard here too...

[steve71ni]

I think if you really care about the water chemistry its better to just test you water with the little aquarium kits.  There can be considerable variation and the values they are reporting are only averages which may not be very up to date.  I tend to use my own results for alkalinity and carbonate and take the average values for sulphate, chloride etc.

[jhn1992]

Amazing, been struggling on this for a while!

Thanks,
H

[sub82]

I think if you really care about the water chemistry its better to just test you water with the little aquarium kits.  There can be considerable variation and the values they are reporting are only averages which may not be very up to date.  I tend to use my own results for alkalinity and carbonate and take the average values for sulphate, chloride etc.

Sounds interesting. What sort would you buy?

[Ciaran]

This a great resource.  Were you able to get specific values for
Calcium
Carbonate
Magnesium

are these listed under a different name or combined into other readings?

[Quiet_Man]

http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/index.php/topic,3667.msg45891.html#msg45891

Ciaran, I spoke with them a while back and posted their reply and some test results for BT6.

Q_M

[Ciaran]

Cheers Andy, yea I decided to just email them directly for the extra detail.  I've updated that thread for BT8 so hopefully that helps someone else.

[belfastjacko]

Bangor has soft water. Who'd have known

[Ryan]

BT36 is moderatley hard. i got a full report a few weeks ago.  bit of faffing about but they sent it across. 

[ManseMasher]

I emailed them asking specifically about elements of concern for brewing - they got back to me the same day. Brilliant service. What does strike me though is that these are annual results - as such I guess they are ball park figures to be used as a starting point, and must change - especially after the downpours of late! I would be interested to know if anyone tests their water more regularly, and what kits are used?

[redshift]

Yeah I test my water before each brew using the Salifert aquarium kits, one for calcium and one for alkalinity. These are the most important values, you can then make sure the mash pH will be in the right area and adjust the Ca level to where you want it by adding CaCl2 or CaSO4. Both these salifert kits are available on eBay.