Water specifications for unfiltered Wellington from the tap?

[Simon David kelly]

Hi,

Does anyone have the figures for Wellington water? I was playing around with beersmith and it doesn't come with any NZ details.

Cheers

Si

[denimglen]

I can't help you but I would email your water supplier and ask them to send you back the figures.

If Welly is anything like Auckland there will be multiple supplies, with different mineral contents, and they'll need to know your address to give you accurate figures. To make things worse sometimes they're mixing supplies too. Also tell them the ion figures you're after.

Hope that helps.

[Simon David kelly]

Helps heaps ... just have to find out the supplier and hope they're in a helpful mood :o)

[denimglen]

Haha, just email whoever sends you the bill bro!

[Alasdair]

Check out www.gw.govt.nz/section667.cfm and the tab on the left of the page ('what's in you water').

If you're living in Wellington City your water come from several sources. I use averages of the analyses from the relevant sources. It's only rough, but then so are resources such as Palmer's residual alkalinity spreadsheet.

So I base water adjustments from these, in conjunction with taste and mash ph.

Typical adjustments I make are calcium sulphate and/or calcium chloride to boost calcium levels and for flavour (if needed) in anything amber or lighter; calcium carbonate in porters and stouts.

I use campden tablets to remove chlorine (or chloramines) too.