Recent content by DoubleBee

Yeah, I've actually been taking a look at the notes on local brewers fermentation tanks, and it confirms that thread. Most of them just use phosphoric. South Austin adds gypsum and chalk, but that's the only thing I've seen other than a straight acid addition. For what it's worth, my IPA...

I'm actually making an IPA with the same water, today, so I'm going with 4g gypsum, split between the mash and sparge. It gets me into the calcium range I'm looking for, without throwing the ph out of whack, and it seems like pushing the sulfate just over 100ppm is actually preferred for this...

For what it's worth, I'm running into that same astringency issue with filtered Austin tap water. It's never horrible, just an astringent twang hanging out on the palette. I figured it's either mashing too long, sparging too hot, or the mash pH. I've got the mash down to an hour, the batch...

A simple riff on the same. Replaced the PVC assembly with a single cast street elbow that weighs enough to hold it in place over the side of a bucket or pot. The supply side is garden hose to QD to garden-hose-to-pipe-thread adapter into the filter. Tried to cut it down to the least number of...

Been scouring sites for a good Tank 7 clone, and this one sounds pretty promising. Any advice on converting to a mini-mash? Not set up for AG, yet.