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• Posted in thread: Priming with honey on 04-11-2013 at 01:33 AM
  isn't it 125% for the conversion? so, 4oz corn sugar needs 5oz honey, to be equal.. i
  think..how did your Belgo turn out?(fwiw, i am about to bottle an irish red that used 1.5lbs of
  wildflower honey i...

• Posted in thread: Krausening on 03-19-2013 at 01:24 PM
  Great link! Thank you! I will try this and post results

• Posted in thread: Krausening on 03-18-2013 at 03:56 PM
  Good Morning beer threaders,I have some questions to a process I will be undertaking in the
  near future. I have tried to search for the right info but need clarification on the subject of
  Krausening (...

• Posted in thread: RyePA on 03-15-2013 at 03:40 AM
  What water do you use? This may be out there but if your water is treated with chloramine then
  it can impart bitter, plasticy chlorophenols. It would be noticeable as a plastic aroma too but
  then agai...

• Posted in thread: Brewing water on 03-01-2013 at 07:47 PM
  I just updated again, got my water values from the city of Vancouver. Turns out our water is
  very low in Ca, Mg and acidic (6.8 ph). I input everything new and might run off city water
  with minimal ad...

• Posted in thread: Brewing water on 03-01-2013 at 07:36 PM
  So, if I read this correctly . . . . is the 9 gallons all mash water? Are you doing a 10 gallon
  batch?I just plugged your grams of additions into Bru'n water, used an oktoberfest recipe I had
  in there...

• Posted in thread: Brewing water on 03-01-2013 at 03:26 PM
  The water looks like it's very high in sodium- You definitely don't want that much
  sodium!Instead of epsom salts and table salt, use calcium chloride to get 50 ppm of calcium and
  see what you get then...

• Posted in thread: Brewing water on 03-01-2013 at 02:50 PM
  I don't see mash pH, be sure to get in in right range.As Yooper said, you don't want to add
  chalk unless you have good reason to do so, I usually add only Calcium Chloride and Gypsum
  (w/some lactic ac...

• Posted in thread: Brewing water on 02-28-2013 at 10:26 PM
  Link of what Brewers Friend's calculator showed me.

• Posted in thread: Brewing water on 02-28-2013 at 08:25 PM
  Looking for information on how to build proper brewing water from distilled. This would allow
  me to add various salts to perfectly hit my recipe based on both style and grains used. I
  recently used th...