Good day,
I'm following up on something brought up in a separate thread of mine, where I realized that the off taste I've encountered with my AG batch of pale ale is likely due to chlorine or chloramine contamination.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/plastic-like-taste-pale-ale-recipe-430938/
So, it's to my understanding that I can prevent this plastic-like taste in my beer if I simply treat for chlorine. Apparently 1 Campden can treat 1 gallon of wort, or just 20 gallons of plain water? This makes no sense to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campden_tablet
About the only conversion I have is that one Campden tablet equals 0.44g of powdered potassium metabisulfite. Is this correct?
Also, do I add the campden tablet(s) to the wort, or to my mash and sparge water? I'm using a stove top setup with two 16 quart stock pots to prepare my sparge water and mash water, so I would have to scale the amount of tablets or k-meta accordingly.
I'm following up on something brought up in a separate thread of mine, where I realized that the off taste I've encountered with my AG batch of pale ale is likely due to chlorine or chloramine contamination.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/plastic-like-taste-pale-ale-recipe-430938/
So, it's to my understanding that I can prevent this plastic-like taste in my beer if I simply treat for chlorine. Apparently 1 Campden can treat 1 gallon of wort, or just 20 gallons of plain water? This makes no sense to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campden_tablet
About the only conversion I have is that one Campden tablet equals 0.44g of powdered potassium metabisulfite. Is this correct?
Also, do I add the campden tablet(s) to the wort, or to my mash and sparge water? I'm using a stove top setup with two 16 quart stock pots to prepare my sparge water and mash water, so I would have to scale the amount of tablets or k-meta accordingly.