We have been brewing with our city water which has chloramines in it and we need to get rid of them. Although I am not sure I taste chlorophenols in our finished beer, I am still convinced that removal will help our beer have a cleaner flavor.
I'm not exactly sure what to do about it and am not familiar with what other breweries are doing to get rid of or neutralize it. I am leaning toward buying an expensive carbon filtration system, with a storage tank that will feed our filtered water into our hot and cold liquor tanks. We have a 15 bbl brewhouse and eventually are going to upgrade to 30 bbl. For this size, we'd like a 10 gal/min. flow rate that can continuously fill the storage tank until it is full. This setup makes it difficult to reclaim hot water from knockout though. The water from knockout must be at a high flow rate, so won't be filtered at knockout, but maybe later. Maybe I need another storage tank for this water and once it is filtered send it directly to the HLT and bypass the storage tank?
Has anybody dealt with this problem on a similar scale?
I have also heard about neutralizing with ascorbic acid or potassium metabisulfite, but adding more stuff to our water makes me cringe a little. Plus I like the carbon filter for removing organic matter from our water since it is from a river.
Please let me know if you have any ideas that may help out.
I'm not exactly sure what to do about it and am not familiar with what other breweries are doing to get rid of or neutralize it. I am leaning toward buying an expensive carbon filtration system, with a storage tank that will feed our filtered water into our hot and cold liquor tanks. We have a 15 bbl brewhouse and eventually are going to upgrade to 30 bbl. For this size, we'd like a 10 gal/min. flow rate that can continuously fill the storage tank until it is full. This setup makes it difficult to reclaim hot water from knockout though. The water from knockout must be at a high flow rate, so won't be filtered at knockout, but maybe later. Maybe I need another storage tank for this water and once it is filtered send it directly to the HLT and bypass the storage tank?
Has anybody dealt with this problem on a similar scale?
I have also heard about neutralizing with ascorbic acid or potassium metabisulfite, but adding more stuff to our water makes me cringe a little. Plus I like the carbon filter for removing organic matter from our water since it is from a river.
Please let me know if you have any ideas that may help out.
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