Where to Purchase Brewing Salts

[MrC]

Where does everyone buy their brewing salts?

I been getting: 

- Gypsum (CaSO4) & Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) from my LHBS

- Tartaric Acid & Baking Soda from Pak N Save

- Epsom Salts (MgSO4) & Citric Acid from my wife (via GoNative)

Where can I buy Calcium Chloride & Sodium Chloride in small amounts?

In Wellington?

[Alasdair]

Sodium chloride will be in your pantry or on your dining table.

Craftbrewer has calcium chloride, but I don't know where in Wellington you can get it. I've got plenty though if you want a bit.

[martin w]

brewerscoop also has it

[Chris Banks]

Sodium Chloride- can you get non iodised table salt from the supermarket or am i barking up the wrong tree?

[jt]

barking up the wrong tree

Tree ? In your case more likely a hop bine !

[Chris Banks]

Barking up the wrong hop bine! Only at full moon jt!

Can you still go to your pharmacy and get small amounts of basic chemicals like the above?

[jt]

full moon

And a full krausen too ?

[Chris Banks]

Always!!

[MrC]

I tried to get non-iodised salt from the supermarket last week but couldn't find any. Plenty of other mysterious "sea salt" type things but nothing that I would confidently use for brewing.

[Simon David kelly]

Try commonsense organics, they have a few salts which I think are all non-iodized.

[martin w]

i pretty sure sea salt is the same as the fine salt,it just hasn't been crushed

[David Nicholls]

CaCl2 is available at pool supply shops in 1kg quantities. It won't be labeled food grade but it is the same product. Sea salt is non iodised unless marked otherwise. Salt in NZ is another great product from Marlborough! Other than that try your local friendly craft brewer.

[Mike Neilson]

Yeah I agree with the CaCl2 I have some here for my spa pool, I havnt been game enough to try it, but Joking had a sample of it and he's still around.