People drank beer because water would get you sick. No microbes that get you sick can live in beer. The hardest beer for a homebrewer to make is an American Light. It will show all its flaws. I toured the old Memphis Coors brewery with an engineer who worked there. They brewed Coors Light double strength and cut it in half when bottling. (Yes, I tasted it double forn the lagering tanks). The Coors from Memphis could only be sold for export since it wasn’t made from ‘rocky mountain spring water’. However, taste tests showed the Memphis product was better. As a homebrewer (lapsed), Memphis has some of, if not the best water for brewing lagers. I won ‘(he World Cup of Beer’ and blue in the CA Small Brewers Competition in ‘95. I know a little about these things.
“I know a little about these things.”
Bully for you.
Tell Prof. Linda Raley - she wrote the article, not me.