My Water Profile

I have some hop bitterness trouble and maltiness trouble too with my beers most of them just seem eh nothing like a commercial beer. This is what I have gathered about my water from our generic sheet they send out to every1 and what I got from the engineer guy when I called.

copper 0.08% (90th % tile) not sure what that is
lead 2.3 (same as copper)

atrazine (ppb) 0.16
Fluoride (ppm) 0.90
Haloacetic Acids {HAA} (ppb) 40.9
Nitrate (ppm) 4.4
Simazine (ppb) 0.07
TTHM's (total trihalomethanes) (ppb) 55.2
Total organic Carbon (ppm) 1.18
Turbidity (ntu) 0.61

alkalinity is an avg of 120 (runs from 80-150)
chlorine is 1.0-2.5 on the generic sheet they send out it was 2.25
sulfate was a no go he didn't know since they weren't required to test for it.

Mg 0.03 ppm
Fe 0.2 ppm
Ca 250 ppm
TDS 250 ppm
Na 4 ppm
and the PH was an avg of 7.3 with a range of 6.8 to 7.5

hopefully some1 can point me in the right direction here.

With regards to your problem (malty & bitterness), the sulfate and chloride are what you need to look at, so i suggest getting your water analyzed in order to find out what your starting sulfate level is. I would suspect pretty low, as your water, on the whole, looks pretty soft, eventhough your Calcium is fairly high.

our water is very hard so he said so. i really need to look into this wardlabs deal and see about that.

Good idea. Alkalinity seems farily low, but for hardness you'll also need a bicarbonate or calcium carbonate level.

just got my water report back from ward labs.

ph 7.2
tds 277
sodium 4
potassium 3
calcium 66
Magnesium 7
total hardness CaCO3 194
nitrate 4.1
sulfate 11
chloride 10
carbonate CO3 <1
Bicarbonate HCO3 162
total alkanlinty CaCO3 133

all are ppm

Csuho said:

just got my water report back from ward labs.

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Now, just plug the important player in HERE, find out what your target water profile is, and you're on your way.

how long does it take to get your results?

Which Ward labs test did you use?

i did the home mineral test the 16.50. i wanna say it was 2 days to get there then 1-2 days for your results. i think i got mine the next day after they got the water.