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“What about the chlorine in the tap water? Shouldn’t you let that aerate and evaporate for a while first?”

This is a non issue. There’s not enough chlorine or chloramine in city water supplies to kill the organisms in our microbe tea. Drinking water chlorine or chloramine levels are way too low to kill our bacteria and the chlorine and chloramine quickly reacts out upon contact with the tea.

One can pull a submerged water pump from a chlorinated water system holding tank which has chlorine or chloramine levels from 2.5 to 5 ppm, 5 ppm being very much on the high side.

If that pump is laid on the ground then put back into the holding tank without first sterilizing the pump, the small amount of bacteria picked up on that pump will easily over run the entire system. That bacteria is not killed and it is a lot less than the multi billions of bacteria numbers in our microbe tea. To rid that small amount of bacteria in that now contaminated system chlorine must be introduced at levels up to 20 ppm, which are toxic to drink and are not the level in drinking water, this is important to remember.

At 6 ppm, women who dye their hair will find it turning purple should they wash their hair with that water treated at that level, but it’s not enough chlorine to kill the bacteria that came in on that pump.

The chlorine or chloramine in tap water used for brewing or from the garden hose when using a hose end sprayer to dispense the tea is almost instantly reacted out by organic and inorganic substances in our microbe tea which serve as food for the microbes.

Claims chlorinated water will have an impact on microbial and bacterial levels while brewing or spraying show lack of understanding of the chlorine levels and reactive process involved.

The final nails in the coffin of this claim are our movies taken after the fact of brewing, after the fact of storage in bottles for two years, and after the fact of spraying, all using non pre-aerated city water. All showing bacteria levels beyond the wildest dreams of any compost tea brewing system.

Finally we find it interesting that after 2 years bottled our pre-brewed tea, with yucca extract added I might add, have levels beyond the reach of the best compost tea reports we have seen. This is why we invented something far superior in content and performance and longevity.

More then likely I probably will have some questions and I’ll give you a call on those when they come up. It’s one of the reasons why I went with your way of growing for Hi Brix. I know all I have to do is call with any questions. Even if it was at 2:30 am. Along with all the extra time you put into repackaging into the flat rate priority boxes to help keep the shipping charges down. These are things that I definitely appreciate and even though your system of growing is more costly initially it yields more with better taste and quality and that is why I’m still a customer to this day.

D. E.