Can I replace regular well water for distilled water?
Friday, December 25th, 2009 at
12:26 pm
I’m making some homemade wine and it calls for distilled water. All I have is tap well water. Do you think it’s okay?
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It’s okay, but it’s probably not going to make a difference.
You can use distilled water, or tap water, as I have always used. Though some water contains dissolved minerals that might just taint the wine. To be honest; unless you have a great deal of iron in the water; I would not bother with distilled water.
Dr Antony
NO, distilled water is just that. IT IS DISTILLED. Tap water has too much other stuff in it. The distilled water is a whole lot cleaner. If you use tap water the wine will not taste as good as you think.
Distilled water has generally had most sediments and impurities removed that regular well water has not. When I was a kid and we did not have distilled water we simply put water in a bucket or container for a few day and then siphoned the water off the top leaving the bottom inch or so as undesturbed as possible. The sediments and harder elements would sink to the bottom. This is a hokey way to do it, but it’s better than nothing … (this works when you need water for Irons and steamers as well)
Probably calls for distilled water because less chance of bacteria. If your well water tastes good-no off smells or taste, then use it, but you may want to boil it first and let it cool to reduce the chance of bacteria.
Depend on your well water. However, yes and no. But if you decied to use thw well water, boil it off first.
yes
The request is to avoid chlorine fluorine and any other chemicals that would alter the taste, flavor or color..
BUT
how hard is your well water you might get scale
I use my well water, though it is filtered before coming into the house. Makes great tasting wines, if you’re worried about the sedaments in your water, they should settle out naturally during primary fermentation and most certainly during secondary. But as others have said, if your well water is high in iron, sulfur or any other odd tasting stuff, I’d stick to distilled.