dmccarty
Super Star Member
I was reading a thread on a beer making website about water quality. These guys can get a bit obsessive about beer making and I think they can go about overboard in water chemistry. There are programs/spreadsheets out there that will take the data from your water sample and tell you what chemicals to add to duplicate a water used in a brewery in Europe so you can try to copy that particular beer. 
Actually, if I had the time, I would be going overboard myself. :laughing:
I was reading the discussion because we needed to get our well water tested. Our county will do this now but it is a PITA to deal with them. Figured the beer guys would be using a good lab thus my reading.
One of the interesting tid bits that popped up was from a beer making well driller. He said that he had drilled numerous wells over the years that hit flammable gas. They would fill up plastic bags with the gas, let them float in the air and light them on fire so they would go boom. I bet right before the let the bags, someone said, "Hey watch this!"
In South FLA the greenies prevented Broward county from dumping treated waste water into the Gulf Stream. As a result the county dug a very deep well. They use this well to INJECT the treated waste water into one of the deeply buried aquifers well under the aquifers used by wells. They have been doing this for a couple of decades now.
I wanted a cistern instead of a well when we built our place but I figured we would have to fight too much with the county and the bank so I left it alone. With a cistern we wold have clean water and I would not have to worry about the well. Even in a power failure we could still get water.
Later,
Dan
Actually, if I had the time, I would be going overboard myself. :laughing:
I was reading the discussion because we needed to get our well water tested. Our county will do this now but it is a PITA to deal with them. Figured the beer guys would be using a good lab thus my reading.
One of the interesting tid bits that popped up was from a beer making well driller. He said that he had drilled numerous wells over the years that hit flammable gas. They would fill up plastic bags with the gas, let them float in the air and light them on fire so they would go boom.
I bet right before the let the bags, someone said, "Hey watch this!"In South FLA the greenies prevented Broward county from dumping treated waste water into the Gulf Stream. As a result the county dug a very deep well. They use this well to INJECT the treated waste water into one of the deeply buried aquifers well under the aquifers used by wells. They have been doing this for a couple of decades now.
I wanted a cistern instead of a well when we built our place but I figured we would have to fight too much with the county and the bank so I left it alone. With a cistern we wold have clean water and I would not have to worry about the well. Even in a power failure we could still get water.
Later,
Dan
