Bees Drinking From Bird Bath

[REDWOOD]

Have you ever tasted London water

 

[Erichalfbee]

I agree.
You can't disguise the taste even with a decent malt!
Now Welsh and Cumbrian water.........

 

[oliver90owner]

London water should be quite good - after all, it may have been 'filtered' several times nd been through up to about seven treatment works before it gets to you!

 

[jd101k2000]

In blind taste tests London water always scores as better than most mineral waters.

 

[pargyle]

London water should be quite good - after all, it may have been 'filtered' several times nd been through up to about seven treatment works before it gets to you!

Yes ... but it's what it does IN BETWEEN those treatment works !

Portsmouth water comes from underground but it is so hard it is almost undrinkable .. Best water in the country as far as I am concerned is Sheffield .. rainfall that comes straight off the millstone grit - virtually devoid of any salts (I said SALTS not salt !) and so soft it takes you half an hour to wash your hair - 2 minutes to wash it and the rest to get the soap suds out ! Just perfect with a single malt as well .... and once upon a time it brewed the best bitter beers on the planet - William Stones Best Bitter ... sadly now brewed in Reading (I think ... anyway, it's not the same).

I understand there is now an Independent Brewery ... Kelham Island Brewery but I've not had chance to taste their wares yet ... hopefully it will be as good as its Sheffield ancestors.

 

[Ely]

Yes ... but it's what it does IN BETWEEN those treatment works !

Portsmouth water comes from underground but it is so hard it is almost undrinkable .. Best water in the country as far as I am concerned is Sheffield .. rainfall that comes straight off the millstone grit - virtually devoid of any salts (I said SALTS not salt !) and so soft it takes you half an hour to wash your hair - 2 minutes to wash it and the rest to get the soap suds out ! Just perfect with a single malt as well .... and once upon a time it brewed the best bitter beers on the planet - William Stones Best Bitter ... sadly now brewed in Reading (I think ... anyway, it's not the same).

I understand there is now an Independent Brewery ... Kelham Island Brewery but I've not had chance to taste their wares yet ... hopefully it will be as good as its Sheffield ancestors.

I grew up in Sheffield and always preferred Sheffield water to anywhere else. Making a brew in Norfolk tastes awful without a water softener. No offence to Norfolk locals, I have met some lovely people down here but generally they are so much friendlier up north.