re: OT: Home Brew

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What water do you use rig? Filtered, well, etc?

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At my old house, I was on the same water pipe as Terrapin and they say they don't do any water treatment so if it was good enough for them then it was good enough for me. Where I live now, on the other side of town, my water is really hard and I made the mistake of reading too much about water chemistry and made myself paranoid so I mix spring with tap with distilled and ph buffering powder etc... complete paranoia. I'm afflicted.

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I'm about 90% ready mentally to take it on.

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All-grain?

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Also..what about an English brown ale...without overbearing hops? Something like a New Castle...hard?

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All ales are easy as long as you don't go nuts on ingredients and you observe the proper fermentation temps for the specific yeast that is called for.