Recent content by Drcast128

No problem, I hope it helps! I live right across the street from the medical center and I believe my water comes from SAWS, based on the service area charts I found online. I brewed two batches of beer this weekend with my lime treatment and CaCl additions. I tried the water before brewing and...

AJ I have a question if you don't mind. Where did you get these equations from? 50*57/20 = 143 and bicarb = 61*alkalinity/50 I'm trying to follow the posts that were put up in the past few days and maybe I missed the post where these numbers and equations are coming from, if that's the case...

Thank you for the reply, ajdelange! I really appreciate your advice and will look into how much to add before lime treatment. I'll try the technique later tonight.

Just like pjj2ba, I did not want to buy any water from the store and at I wanted to know more about the science of brewing so I decided to explore treating my water with lime. The article that I posted has some pictures that give you a step by step of how to do it. I followed it exactly, with...

Not long ago I asked for help on how to reduce my Total Alkalinity as Calcium Carbonate. My Total Alkalinity CaCO3 living in San Antonio, was around 235, which is way too high for many of the light beers that I desire to brew. Two people were quick to help me out and I just wanted to post a...

Hi everyone long time lurker here, I recently got into reading much more in depth about water chemistry after being frustrated about why my all grain light beers were never turning out quite like I wanted but my dark beers were always spot on. I looked into my water quality for San Antonio...