Need to build a potable water hose for the all grain set up in the garage. What is the best material to use considering safety, health and taste?
I use an RV Hose. Cheers!!!
PEX is great and not too difficult to use.
Expensive compared to an RV hose, though.
+1 on the RV hose. Sometimes HD or Lowes have white hoses specifically marked for drinking water.
Yeah, I got a potable water hose at Home Depot. Not this one, but something similar.
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I’m probably just stupid but I couldn’t find a price on that link. I had to buy one over here and it was around $12 for a ten foot hose.
That’s a 25’ hose and it told me it was $13. I might have a cookie that links me to my local store though, and it said it’s not for sale online.
you could also just buy a barbed hose attachment and clamp some siphon tubing on it, if you wanted to be super-ghetto - I think a barbed hose threaded attachment is ~$4 and then a worm clamp plus however many feet of 1/2" siphon tubing you need - maybe 5’? <$7 total.
Nice! Thirteen bucks is worth not having to build it up. Thanks for the links!
Having just used a garden hose myself to top off the HLT, are there downsides other than potential infection in using hose water?
I mean, when I was a kid, we drank from the hose all the time, and I ended up alrightBAHDUCKSEVERYWHEREPURPLESHINYTHINGS
We did the same thing as kids and, maybe you don’t remember it, but the water coming out definitely had a strong “hosey” taste. That taste could end up being nasty in beer.
My first all-grain batch I filled the HLT with a garden hose, because I was boiling it to get rid of the chlorine anyway. The mash tun was filled with brita filtered water from the tap. The batch tasted like garden hose, it ended up down the drain. My second batch I had a food grade hose.
Hopefully since I only added a couple liters it should be ok. We’ll see… Either way I’ll drink it, nothing can be worse than my last batch of “apricot” IPA with too much artificial flavoring. Blech.
Can food-grade hose stay outside? I.e., can I use it for my garden hose?
As far as I know, yes, you can use a food grade hose for a garden hose. It might be more susceptible to UV light than a regular garden hose though, that might be my biggest concern. There is a 25’ food-grade hose for sale at Home Depot in the US for ~$13, that’s worth keeping separate as far as I’m concerned. But it’s not sold online and I don’t know what I would cost in France.
-1 on the RV hose. Mine gave me a weird chemical off-flavor that took forever to find because I broke the rule of only changing one thing at a time.
OK, let’s be more specific. When you say RV hose, was said hose medical/food grade vinyl? I’m assuming there are various grades of “RV hose” but I’m concerned about this issue as well. Tempted to find 3/4 or 5/8" silicone hose build my own dammit.
When I got mine, I got it by the foot from HD and added the hose fittings at each end. It doesn’t look like the RV hose, it’s clear with reinforcement running through it.
I bought this one from Amazon:
I love it, no off flavors even in Pils. I would buy longer though, you can never go wrong with a longer hose.
Now let me ask, does anyone have a source for lead-free, food-grade garden hose fittings (valves, tees, etc.)? I’m succumbing to media brainwashing and starting not to trust my faithful brass fittings…
If you are looking for something like, hard plumb it and leave it, CPVC is great. Dirt cheap, and you could train a monkey to put it in for you.