Personal computing discussed
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just brew it! wrote:it is the one aspect of beer brewing that I have mostly ignored, because it tends to make my brain hurt. Fortunately my tap water is pretty good for brewing as-is, other than the city putting a bunch of chlorine in it (easily removed with a carbon block filter).
Captain Ned wrote:The way to go today is to go with a "salt water" pool and run a tiny electrolytic cell to make your hypochlorite bleach in situ.And yes, there's nothing non-techie about water chemistry. Back when my parents had an inground pool the chem testing kit was large and full of nasty reagents.
JustAnEngineer wrote:I would strongly advise against the sodium bromide solution mentioned in that wikipedia article because bromate is a likely carcinogen.