Water treatement to promote maltiness

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Piotr

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I wonder if high level of bicarbotates promotes maltiness or not?

I brew on my tap water, which is pretty tasty; moderately hard whit quite a lot of bicarbonates.
I usually don't do any water treatement, only pre-boil for light beers to get rid of some bicarbonates.

Now I'm going to brew a doppelbock. Best examples of this beer come from Munich, water there is rich in bicarbonates, so I think I will go without preboiling. What do you think?
 
High PH water is best for dark beers because the darker grain will lower PH to the correct (or closer to) PH. Light beers will have more problems with high PH water and might come out tasting flat and lifeless.

I'm not sure how much of the bicarbonates will come out with boiling.
 

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