{"id":892,"date":"2013-04-30T19:56:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T00:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/?p=892"},"modified":"2013-04-30T20:26:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:26:02","slug":"home-brewing-water-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/2013\/04\/home-brewing-water-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Brewing Water Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time I brewed last year I used the type of water filter you screw on the end of a faucet. \u00a0It worked, but it was slow and with 2 people brewing it took a while to run 10 gallons of water through it.<\/p>\n

Next up was buying a 5 gallon jug of bottled water. \u00a0Faster, but not the easiest solution out there.<\/p>\n

For the third batch, I switched to 1 gallon jugs of water. \u00a0Easy to move, measure, and inexpensive at about $1\/gallon; this worked well for the next few batches. \u00a0This year we added a 3rd guy to our brew day which moved us up to 15 gallons of water and with the possibility of making larger batches, adding more people, and going all-grain, I started looking around other ideas. \u00a0Enter a little project:<\/p>\n

Weekly Photo – Home Brewing Water Filter<\/h3>\n

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My weekly photos don’t always have to be scenic HDR creations, right? \u00a0I think this counts.<\/p>\n

We ran about 20 gallons through it this past weekend and it worked out perfectly. \u00a0The idea came from this thread<\/a> at HomeBrewTalk.com<\/a>. \u00a0Scrolling through the thread shows how different people have made their own and provides excellent ideas. \u00a0 I went with a 10ft 1\/2in hose on the intake side which I can connect to both an outdoor water faucet or a sink faucet. \u00a0Then on the outgoing side it’s just a 90deg elbow which allows it to hang over the side of a bucket:<\/p>\n

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Looking to make your own? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s a photo of all the parts I used, but be sure to check out the thread mentioned above for more ideas. \u00a0Click on the photo to jump to a larger version to see all the part details:<\/p>\n

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Changes Already?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I didn’t notice when I bought the filter housing that it doesn’t have a shut-off valve on the top. \u00a0A couple I bought years ago all did and I never thought it would be missing when buying this one. \u00a0I’ll be adding a shutoff valve to the intake side of the filter, but I’m not sure exactly what I will use for that yet.<\/p>\n

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Do you have a filter for a home brew setup? \u00a0 Post a comment with details or a link to a photo so I can check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>

The first time I brewed last year I used the type of water filter you screw on the end of a faucet. \u00a0It worked, but it was slow and with 2 people brewing it took a while to run 10 gallons of water through it. Next up was buying a 5 gallon jug of bottled water. \u00a0Faster, but not the easiest solution out there. For the third batch, I switched to 1 gallon jugs of water. \u00a0Easy to move, measure, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[47,29],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-brewing","tag-lenssigma-10-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}