Recent content by MarkF

Up mine another bag of 2 row. 3 sacks total - 2 row Thanks!

Put me down for 2 sacks of Pale. MarkF

Excellent! I listened to the Brew Strong episodes from the Brewing Network on Water. Cant recommend all those shows enough. Read chapter 15 of How to Brew. And of course, lots of posts from this forum. I am excited to see what this does. Thanks to everyone. Mark

Thanks! I batch sparge. So, I will add enough salts to my mash water of 3.5gal to get me where I want. Then add enough salts to the kettle for the additional batch sparge water I will be using: The final volume in my kettle will be around 7.5 gallons. Do I add just enough salts for that...

Regardless of the style, should I get my Ca levels upto at least 50ppm and then go from there?

I guess what confuses me is if you plug Pilsens numbers of: Calcium - 7 ppm Magnesium - 2 ppm Sodium - 2 ppm Chloride - 5 ppm Sulfate - 5 ppm Bicarbonate as HCO3 - 15 into Palmers nomograph, it puts it into the same suggested beer SRM of my water. Does Pilsener Urquell add calcium to...

Thats what I was thinking. Adding both Gypsum and Calcium Chloride to keep my Sulfate and Chloride ratios balanced while adding Calcium to get my Residual Alkalinity down. I guess the way to get your RA down is to increase your Effective Hardness and this is done by adding Calcium. Somebody...

My home well water is very soft: Calcium - 2 ppm Magnesium - 2 ppm Sodium - 5 ppm Chloride - 2 ppm Sulfate - <1 ppm Alkalinity as CaCO3 - 21 Bicarbonate as HCO3 - 26 I am making a Bohemian Pilsener. My water as it is now, is very close to the water used in Pilsen Czech. However...

I have a SureScreen that I usually use, but couldnt find it.

The beer is a raspberry smoked porter. I was using the scrubbie to filter out any potential seeds from the raspberries, which probably arent there since I filtered through a grain bag when kegging. I removed the scrubbie. It is a brighter copper color than when it first went in. Upon...

I placed a copper scrubbie at the end of my pickup tube to act a a filter in my corny keg. Was this a bad idea? On initial tasting, I am picking up a metallic taste in my beer. I now think I read somewhere that copper isnt good around finished beer due to the acidity of the beer. Should I...