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Beer Brats and of course....beer! This monday only at my houseOnly in Wisconsin! What else did I hear out there....pop and grinders for soda and a sub sandwiches....and the tailgate at Brewer's stadium had to include Brats cooked in beer....but my favorite, and what I miss is Kopps Ice cream in Milwaukee (Glendale)....not far from my place in Brown Deer.
Anyway.....
First off, there is a crude test for CO2 in your water. Draw a glass of water from the tap and immediately measure pH. Let that glass sit around for a day. Measure pH again. If the water went from acidic to more neutral, it typically is a sign for high CO2 in your water. You could speed this test up a bit if you have a pump and bubbler. Bubble the water and after about 30 minutes, measure pH.
Two ways to bubble your water:
1. Make RO water only and collect. Bubble this water for a day. Using a small/slow pump, pump it through the DI.
2. And this DIY method was from the Spectrapure site....
Procedure for aeration for CO2 removal
RO product water is collected in a 3 feet tall PVC column with an air stone resting at the bottom. Air from an air pump is pumped into the column with RO product water. Degassed water (almost free of CO2 ) is collected from the top of the column and then gravity fed into the Deionization cartridge.