Homestead mailing list

[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

How come a regular filter and a bit of bleach, combined, wouldn't work?  I 
remeber you discussing this before on this & farmer's list and I went to some 
of the filter sites, it is very confusing ....bobford


-----------------------------------------------------------------------


--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [Homestead] Home brew book
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 1:06 PM
> > Don, one time I was hunting along the stream bed of a
> wooded area of a
> > farmer's land.  I drank from thwe beautiful clear
> water of the stream..
> > 'Walked up aways , bloated dead cow in stream,
> possum crawled out of its
> > butt ......
> 
> Always a concern.
> 
> I grew up drinking water out of the farm pond located above
> the house.  Cows
> used it as well, pissing and craping all the while.  My
> brother and I spent
> many hours swimming in that pond.
> 
> As for Heartwood, we used distilled water for drinking but
> everything else
> was water right out of the creek.  One of the things I am
> looking for is a
> UV filtration system.  That is not necessary for brewing as
> the water is
> boiled anyway so all that would be needed is a fine filter.
> 
> Stone Brewing has a very expensive RO system for their
> water then put back
> in some minerals.
> 
> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html