So I bought a tube of test strips and after trying them out twice in my mash, I find that they do nothing.
Yep, the color pad looks like a wet pad. No change in color that I can detect. To me this can mean 3 things:
1. I am stupid and don't know how to use the strips.
2. My PH is off the charts.
3. The strips don't work.
All of the colors on the comparison chart are in the range for beer and they are all different enough from the plain strip to make me believe that if the strips were working, and the mash was anywhere near the proper acidity, I'd see a change.
Yep, the color pad looks like a wet pad. No change in color that I can detect. To me this can mean 3 things:
1. I am stupid and don't know how to use the strips.
2. My PH is off the charts.
3. The strips don't work.
All of the colors on the comparison chart are in the range for beer and they are all different enough from the plain strip to make me believe that if the strips were working, and the mash was anywhere near the proper acidity, I'd see a change.