Posts tagged 'Beer Brewing'

US Water Systems sells more water treatment systems for craft beer breweries in the USA than anyone. So, let me preface this with: We love Craft Brewers and enjoy working with them on all sorts of water treatment projects. After all, beer is 95% water and water is the #1 ingredient in your product. However, recently I learned that about 60 breweries submitted an Amici Curiae Brief ("Friend o...

I just came back from the Craft Brewer's Conference called Brew Expo America in Denver, Colorado this past weekend, and while I was extremely excited by all of the craft brewers I met and the quality of prospects that we generated, I was somewhat frustrated at times by some Craft Brewers beliefs about the role water plays in their products. Here's an actual conversation I had with a craft brewer...

It's a fact that all distilled spirits and beers have one common ingredient - the most essential ingredient of the product, that being water.  Unfortunately, most water is a lot more that just H2O, which often adversely impacts the final product.  Chlorine, iron, manganese, chloramines, tannin, nitrate, TDS, sodium, chlorides, sulfates and many other elements in the water are not desirable for d...