I followed one of the hard lemonade recipes on the site, basically yeast water table sugar and lemonade concentrate. Starting gravity was about 1.100. I pitched it on a W-yeast belgian strong ale yeast cake just as an experiment. Fermentation was pretty slow and I did add some wine yeast to...
First all grain batch has gone great! We used the calculator and added gypsum, calcium chloride, and some baking soda to get the ph right. So far so good.
Sorry, it took me so long to reply. We are going to try to brew with the Greenville water but had some extract kits to use first. I will post how the first all grain turns out.
I cranked up the heater and we are getting about 155 F at the sink. My builder and father-in-law said that the piped should be fine- I hope. Way more efficient than heating the water on the stove. Cuts an easy 20 mins to 30 min off the total process.
My water appears to be pretty soft, any recommendations as to what to add to adjust ions for all grain brewing would be very helpful. We are just starting all grain brewing! See attached link to PDF water report.
http://greenvillewater.com/pdfs/GWS_WQR_2010.pdf
We just pulled the water quality report for Greenville, SC and I think we have pretty soft water. We are getting into all grain brewing and need advice. See attached link.
http://greenvillewater.com/pdfs/GWS_WQR_2010.pdf
Hello,
My wife (she love to brew as well) and I have an older model tankless water heater that will actually heat water to 170 degrees. We can easily set/reset the temperature from inside.
Would increasing temperature on this heater be advised to heat our strike water. The piping to the...