Thanks to everyone for their replies. I don't have water testing equipment nor the patience for it, it is what it is. I use R/O water. Here is the last recipe I brewed, a scaled down 4 gallon version:
8.4# Pale 2-row
1.00 Crystal 40L
.40 Carapils
1oz Chinook @ 60;
.50 oz Chinook @ 30;
.75 Chinook @ flamout
.25 Cascade + 1oz Centennial Dry hop
I mashed at 152 using a ratio of 1.25 quarts per lb of grain. I fly sparged using approximately 1.5x the amount of strike water. My yeast was US-05.
The beer came out clear enough, looks good, but the aroma isn't the dankness I had hoped for and the tasted is very, very similar to an east coast IPA, more malty than hoppy. I'm a bit of a hop head, so the average beer drinker would probably say it's plenty hoppy, but c'mon, you hop heads know what I mean.
I don't remember the original and final gravity readings, but they were in line with what's to be expected. It finished around 6.8% ABV.
Hope this helps......