Leixlip water supply: current hardness

[admin]

300mg/l CaCO3, or very hard.

To get it down to 20mg/l:
For light beers this means 1.5ml of CRS per litre of liquor.
Less for dark beers, maybe 1.2ml.

[DEMPSEY]

1 ml of CRS will remove CaCO3 at the rate of 183 ppm per litre of water.

[DEMPSEY]

Just did a test of my tap water and got a reading of 128ppm CaCO3.
2 other tests done a while back showed my calcium at 100ppm.

[DEMPSEY]

I bought a salifert  KH/ALK Carbonate Hardness/Alkalinity test kit on ebay.

[DEMPSEY]

The kit measures the alkalinity and expresses it in value's,
dKH (degree's karbonate hardness) and Alkalinity in meq/L.
You take the meq/L number and multiply by 50 to get a ppm/L CaCO3 reading.

[DEMPSEY]

Or get a better test kit

[imark]

Any chance you've tested this lately? Still waiting on my water test kit.

[imark]

Cheers.  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[Partridge9]

Do you remember what the TOG water was ?

I take it you would prefer 100-150 region.