[Greenbuilding] $25 Radon Test + ETR Health Scan RE: Water Softener Filters

[Alan Abrams]

RT is on point here:

"Mashing takes place using water from three springs in the flat lying land
at Qrquil about two miles west of the distillery. This water is hard. There
is a general belief that soft water must be used for Scotch whisky *but
this is incorrect*. Much of the water in Scotland is soft the rain having
flowed over crystalline rock. But in areas of limestone and sandstone hard
water emerges and such supplies are used in well known distilleries such as
Glenmorangie, Glenkinchie and Highland Park. The water which percolates
through the sandstone becomes rich in carbonates and sulphates and such is
the process water used in Scapa." [italics added]

http://www.scapamalt.com/Distillery/DistillingProcess.aspx


Alan Abrams

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On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 6:14 PM, sanjay jain <sanjayjainuk at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> http://www.glenfiddich.com/us/explore/ambassadors-blog/2014/why-we-only-use-demineralised-water-to-distill-our-whisky/
>
> "We use natural spring water from the Robbie Dhu spring in every step of
> producing our single malt. But in a small break with history, we now
> demineralise any water we add to our products after distillation."
>
> ~sanjay
>
>
> ----
> If people in glass houses didn't throw stones, we'd all be living in glass
> houses!
>
>
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* RT <ArchiLogic at yahoo.ca>
> *To:* Green Building <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 21, 2015 6:08 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Greenbuilding] $25 Radon Test + ETR Health Scan RE: Water
> Softener Filters
>
> On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 20:19:09 -0500, Antonioli Dan <solardan26 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>  The well is shared with my 90-year-old neighbor and she’s been drinking
> the water since 1959.
>
>
> I'd be willing to wager a bottle of AA-man's 50 year-old Glenfiddich that
> she hasn't been using a water softener on that well water since 1959.
>
> (And I'd be willing to wager that Glenfiddich  doesn't use  softened water
> either, for that matter.)
>
> --
> === * ===
> Rob Tom ADT1
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
>
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