Water nerds

Bill, Ottawa has a couple different treatment plants, so it depends on where you get your water, but the first link is the one you want:

Here are the stats you are particularly interested in to put into a water calculator of some sort. I believe (someone correct me if I'm wrong), that mg/L and ppm are interchangeable:

pH 9.39 (don't worry if this seems high, dropping pH in soft water is easy)

Calcium 9.4 mg/L

Chloride 7 mg/L

Magnesium 2.4 mg/L

Sulphate 24 mg/L

Sodium 19.4 mg/L

Hardness 24 mg/L CaCO3

Ok so what we can take away from this is that Ottawa water is soft as shit. What does this mean? Well you're in luck, because it means you don't need to remove anything, but rather just add some salt.

You're going to want to invest in about $5 in Calcium Chloride and $5 in Calcium Sulphate. I would shoot for adding about 1 gram/gallon total of a combination of the two, depending on the beer you're going for. Feel free to shoot me a message or ask on the Slack if you want some guidance here.

The only thing I"m unsure of is that Chloramine count. While chlorine is easy to remove from water because it's crazy volatile, I don't know if that 1.8 mg/L is within the taste threshold for chloramin, so you might need to do some research (or just buy a pack of campden tablets). I would ask Kyle about this one.