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Right, but hard water often has alkalinity, no? I admit I have not been brewing for long, but I have a koi pond and often deal with water quality issues. From what I understand, more often than not hard tap water is due to calcium carbonates etc, which do impart alkalinity. I guess my question...

Harder water has a buffering capacity, therefore if your aim is make your water more acidic, otherwise lowing the pH, it will be more difficult to do so with harder water.

Hey PJ, have you read about gTME (Global Transcription Machinery Engineering) at all? There are some great articles out there, with specific regard to S.cerevisiae, and engineering a more EtoH AND glucose tolerant yeast, I recently presented on said topic and have the link to the article if...

PJ, have you read anything about gTME (global transcription machinery engineering)? I recently did a presentation on yeast, and found a great article about S.cerevisiae and creating a mutant with a higher tolerance for EtoH AND glucose (a point I think many people forget). I can send you the...

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