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I tried the Brita thing on Sunday. Put the plastic top of my brita water jug over the top of my fermenter (after cleaning, scrubbing etc). Then filled it up. After 1 hour of waiting I had less than a liter of water in the bottom of my fermenter - at which point I said you gotta be kidding and filled it up with tap water, opened a home brew and laughed at the idea of waiting 2 days to fill up my fermenter - still am.. I am glad I did not invest the time in cutting a hole in the bottom of a perfectly good bucket etc...although with the water shortage in NSW I may resort to it as they add more chlorine to keep the water safe to drink. Don't know, maybe I did not read the fine print in this procedure...cheers.

what? a litre goes through in about a minute or two in mine, sure your cartridge isn't old as the hills? you did soak it first if it was a new one, right?

I use an "in line" Brita system and fill 40 litres in about 15 min.

Dogger

Somethings definately not right there HopsAlot. Surely it doesn't take you that long when you use it as a water jug?? I get about 2L/min through those things.

Did you remove the plastic warp??

Thanks guys - i guess i did not read the fine print - my missus last night said the same thing - you did soak it first right? Doh. Story of my life I will give it another try - and try reading the fine print next time!
Humbled by a brita water filter....

Forgiven

Dogger

my latest two brews have been made with brita filtered water.

the first, cooper's canadian blonde with 400g corn, 600g dex (be1) and metric cup of light dry malt. 1 pack dry yeast, safale us-56. fermented at 18-20 degrees. 23 litres

the second, cooper's original draught, 1kg ldm, 500g glucose syrup, saaz tea bag. two coopers dry yeast packets. fermented 20-22 D. 23 litres.


I read elsewhere of a brewer who experienced stuck fermentation when switching to filtered water so I added a teaspoon of nutrient salt to both, and the second also had a bilo brand packet of yeast thrown in the boil as feed.

the blonde hit the skids about 1022, and after rousing the yeast daily for a few days it's down to 1018.

the draught went like mad for a day and a half then pulled up quick about the same mark.

this has never happened to me before. the water here in brisbane is pretty good anyway so I think I'll be abandoning the filtered water.

Andrew wrote:At my place we have tank water - probably should get a filter etc etc but for some reason I prefer the taste it gives homebrew.

I have used tank water, but I was told that tank water is too 'soft', and needs additions if it's to make good homebrew.(Mind you I didn't notice any difference, good or bad, so I didn't use it again).
I used to use the bench top water purifier in Queensland, but now I am in the ACT, I don't bother as the tap water is very good. I have compared the QLD brew to ACT ones, and to be honest, I can't say that the filtered water ones taste any different. Others may have found this not to be the case if they live in places (like Brisbane) where the water was heavily chlorinated.

the second brew has also developed a very bad infection. my first.