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Thank you to everyone here for educating me on some water basics. It's nearly goodbye awesome CO water hello crappy AZ water. Packing up the espresso machine and roaster this weekend. Scottsdale water has a lot of chlorides. Since there is no convenient place in the new house...

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We just received our new Gaggia Pro... After watching a few Youtubes, my well water will be a problem. While I figure out a permanent solution. I was thinking of cut my well water with distilled water to get us going. We currently run it through a Berkey filter which takes...

I need to get a water system for my home setup. For a while now I've been using GC water and mixing it with a gallon of Distilled water and it comes out to a TDS of 105. Not sure what minerals are in GC water. This is getting really old! I want to get an espresso machine and...

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I wanted to get some feedback on the comparison of using Shurflo versus FloJet to pump water from a container for an espresso machine and milk jug rinse station. I plan on using an accumulator in each setup to resolve any flow issues and disruption when both...

I have a suspicion this is a dumb question, which is maybe why I haven't found any previous posts.

I am planning to start brewing water using distilled water, epsom salt, and potassium bicarbonate to use in my Lelit Mara PL62-T. The machine came with a Lelit water softener, so...

I have been using TWW on and off for a few years. During that whole time I never really paid much attention after shaking the bottle. I noticed recently that even after shaking the bottle for 1min there are a bunch of tiny flakes floating in the 1gal bottle. Even waiting 24hrs I...

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I've started looking at espresso machines as I've graduated for the most part from coffee to lattes. But before I make a decision and spend the $, I have to square away my water situation first. Let me start out by stating, having recently had a baby, my wife DEMANDS...

Has anybody used this filter pitcher? WLL recommends it and it sounds a whole lot easier than mixing up SCA spec brew water all the time.

Since I switched to Aqua Panna on my LMLM I haven't got that good crema like I did when I used Poland springs?

Hi, im new here and firstly i would like to thank everyone at home-barista for all the helpful information about this permitted vice called coffee.

anyway after a search i noticed that theres no topic about this water tank (softeners/enhancer pills) im interested in getting a...