When it comes to our brewing customers, our primary objectives are:
- Reducing the TDS and chloride concentrations from the raw water to acceptable levels
- Obtaining chloride concentrations below 2.5 mg/L for optimal brewing
- Reducing the pH to enable precise pH control of the treated water prior to brewing
- Providing low TDS permeate as make-up water for cleaning solutions
- Totally removing bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms from the brewery’s water source
There are 2 types of breweries: the major national breweries and the current influx of the small micro-breweries that are popping up all over the country. The major brewers pretty well tailor their product around the existing water supplies; you’ll find them in cities where they have adequate water and typically very good water. The main interest of these types of breweries is to get out the chlorine of the water so they can use either a carbon or a KDF filter to knock down the chlorine and the chloramines in the water. The smaller breweries tend to pick up recipes from Europe or Asia and they know that their success is going to be a very narrow band of flavor and texture of the aftertaste of the beer so they tend to go a lot further in water treatment.
