Cocktails, the libationary art!
A place for conversation about cocktails, ingredients, home mixology, the bar industry or liquor industry, glassware - this is not an exhaustive list. If you think it's in some way related to cocktails it's probably fine.
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Mentioning your blog, insta, website, book or bar is allowed, yes. For now at least, we do allow self-promotion. If it gets out of hand this might change.
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Filtering won't get dissolved solids like calcium, magnesium, chloride, etc out, and those will all contribute to nucleation of ice crystals. A bunch of little ice crystals is part of how you end up with cloudy ice because it will mess up the directionality of freezing.
I've tried using distilled water to combat this, but it isn't foolproof by itself without doing one of the other methods.
Edit to add: I've also tried boiling water to try to degass it, but it didn't seem to be effective, either.