So I recently retired and am looking for a way to help curb brewing expenses without curbing my brewing. Regarding water, I generally stop at WalMart or other nearby grocer to buy gallon jugs of distilled water off the shelf, usually priced around 99 cents to $1.19 per gallon. Last week I stopped at my local Culligan shop and learned that they offer a RO club whereby you pre-pay $75 for 250 gallons of RO water, which comes out to 30 cents/gallon, and then pick up what you need each trip. (I didn't think to ask if this includes the containers or if I have to purchase or provide my own). So my question to those that use RO water is, do you treat that as distilled water when building a water profile to fit the beer you're brewing?
*I don't want to put in a RO home unit.
*I don't want to put in a RO home unit.