Bottled Water For Rinsing Yeast?

[Fat Bastard]

I've been using boiled and cooled water for the yeast rinsing process, and I am now getting in troube from SWMBO for storing bottles of boiled water in the fridge and taking up space. It's hard enough keeping beer in there!

Can I just buy a slab of cheapo supermarket bottled water and use that, or is it not sterile or has too high a mineral content or something? I've seen some reference to using it around here, but nothing definitive one way or another.

Cheers,

FB

 

[Yob]

no need to pay for it mate, I keep a 2L jug full of cooled boiled water at all times with glad wrap lid and a rubber band and keep it on the shelf in the shed.. at ambient as this is the temp you will be rinsing at...

hopefully?

 

[Dazza88]

I have used cheap bottled water on a number of occasions without an issue but cooled boiled water is cheaper.

 

[Midnight Brew]

Cooled boiled water is exactly that, doesn't need to be refrigerated. Supermarket water works too but why pay more?

 

[Steve@PMF82]

I have and still sometimes when i cant be bothered filtering and boiling my rainwater.

I grab small mount franklin bottles pack on special, FYI it has next to nothing in regards to mineral content. Pretty sure Frantelle has a pretty good levels of minerals and prob not ideal for storing yeast, i think peats ridge has reasonably low levels as well.

I make the assumption that a freshly opened bottle is as close to sterile as needed for my use.

 

[Fat Bastard]

Unfortunately I brew in a small flat, so space is a massive issue. We've got an RO Water plant at work, so if I had my druthers, I'd fill a cube and use that, but unfortunately a lack of space rears it's ugly head. I could put it in the store room downstairs, but of course, that's for beer!

I'm thinking the bottled water might be good because I can just jam the bottles under the sideboard until I'm ready to use them, thereby having a ready supply of clean water and creating domestic harmony in one fell swoop. Unlike leaving jugs sealed with gladwrap and old softdrink bottles everywhere.

Cheers,

FB

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Whats wrong with tap water...works for me.

 

[kymba]

What about soda water? I think I've seen 1L bottles of black and gold for under 1 dollars

 

[Fat Bastard]

What about soda water? I think I've seen 1L bottles of black and gold for under 1 dollars

You could almost use afroth flotation process to separate the yeast from the trub!

Or maybe not.

 

[spog]

perhaps sterilise some bottles,then boil some water ,cool it,bottle it and store in the bottom of a cupboard (away from a light source).
make the best of limited space .
dunno about the need to refridgerate the water?,but i guess if need so bung what you need in fridge before you start .

........cheers......spog.....

 

[Nick JD]

I rinse my yeast with cooled, boiled wort.

By chucking the whole lot in the next batch.

If you can taste 20ml of trub in 20L of beer you're a freakin weirdo. Stope being so girly and make beer.

 

[JaseH]

Just because its bottled, doesn't mean its free from bacteria

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthne...-tap-water.html

 

[brad81]

I'm with Frothie, you're assuming it is sterile. Pretty sure it's just bottled tap water.

Go nuts and fill a few spare tallies and cap them!!