Home Brewing Water Filtration System
One of the benefits of all grain brewing is reducing your ingredient price. However, one of the ingredients that I’m currently buying is water. Now that I going all grain I will be using more water. Previously I had been buying 6+ gallons of water for extract brewing. Since I will at least double my water consumption for all grain I made a decision to build a water filtration system. I did some googling and found it should be rather easy to build one. The system I planned on coping was one I found at BYO. I headed down to my local big box store with a parts list in hand. Once I arrived at the water filter section of the store the light went off in my head. I could just use a whole house system and save myself some time. I just needed some fittings to attach it to my garage sink, some tubing, and the water filter. This is what I ended up with.
1 x Whirlpool WHKF-DWHV Whole house water filter 2 x 1/2" Barb x 3/4" MIP Elbow 2 x 5/8" OD x 1/2" ID x 10' 1 x Quick Connect Sink Adapter 1 x Quick Connect to Hose Adapter Male 5/8" 1 x 1/2 Bard to 5/8 Female
I went with a more elaborate sink adapter which allows me to also connect a hose to my sink. I need this so I could connect my Therminator for wort chilling. You can modify the connection to your particular water source. When connecting all of the fitting make sure you use teflon tape to reduce the chance of any leaks. So far I’m happy how the filtration system turn out.
