Adding campden before or after adding concentrate to water?

[edd1001]

So I'm making a wine kit where you combine water and concentrate.

I plan to use a campden tablet to remove chloramine from my tap water. Do I have to treat the water separately first, or can I simply add the campden to the final prepared must?

 

[Ohio Bob]

So I'm making a wine kit where you combine water and concentrate.

I plan to use a campden tablet to remove chloramine from my tap water. Do I have to treat the water separately first, or can I simply add the campden to the final prepared must?

As far as I’m aware, the potassium metabisulfite wont do that. Or at least in 30+ years of wine making I’ve never heard of that. Better to go to the store and buy filtered or distilled water. I use filtered tap water just to be extra safe. But we have fine tap water and would not be hesitant to use it if I needed several gallons and didn’t want to spend 20 minutes filtering water.

 

[BarrelMonkey]

Sodium or potassium metabisulfite certaily will remove chloramine from tap water (see, eg https://www3.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/dechlorination.pdf). But I agree with @Ohio Bob , the extra cost of 5 gallons of water from the store is minimal compared to what you've already invested in the kit.

 

[edd1001]

As far as I’m aware, the potassium metabisulfite wont do that. Or at least in 30+ years of wine making I’ve never heard of that. Better to go to the store and buy filtered or distilled water. I use filtered tap water just to be extra safe. But we have fine tap water and would not be hesitant to use it if I needed several gallons and didn’t want to spend 20 minutes filtering water.

Oh so for beer homebrewing I have an RV hose filter, and then always treat with campden.

First time making a wine kit and was planning to do the same.

Though I realize now the wine kit was $130, ingredients for beer are closer to $20-$30, so buying water for wine is almost negligible.

More so about not lugging around the water from the store at that point.

 

[winechef]

Please use quality filtered or spring water. make your wine with best ingredients