Silver_Is_Money
Larry Sayre, Developer of 'Mash Made Easy'
All three were making 5 gallons of the very same recipe.
All three were reading the very same book on water profiles. And reading the very same water profile. And recipe...
All three decided that to best hit the slam dunk magical profile they should start with distilled water.
All three very carefully made up the exact same ppm's of 8 gallons of this magical elixir / mineralization water.
#1 mashed in 6 gallons of this water and sparged with 2 gallons
#2 mashed with 4 gallons of this water an sparged with 4 gallons
#3 mashed with all 8 gallons and did not sparge at all
#3 mashed in twice as many mEq's of minerals as did #2, and 50% more mEq's of minerals than did #1.
All three made different beers and none of them resembled the beer nirvana hinted at within the book.
All three had no clue as to why they all used the same magical water profile, book, recipe, and beer final volume, and yet made different beers.
All three never knew that the author they were reading had no clue either.
And the moral of this story is that mineral profiles derived from ppm's (mg/L's) are useless.
All three were reading the very same book on water profiles. And reading the very same water profile. And recipe...
All three decided that to best hit the slam dunk magical profile they should start with distilled water.
All three very carefully made up the exact same ppm's of 8 gallons of this magical elixir / mineralization water.
#1 mashed in 6 gallons of this water and sparged with 2 gallons
#2 mashed with 4 gallons of this water an sparged with 4 gallons
#3 mashed with all 8 gallons and did not sparge at all
#3 mashed in twice as many mEq's of minerals as did #2, and 50% more mEq's of minerals than did #1.
All three made different beers and none of them resembled the beer nirvana hinted at within the book.
All three had no clue as to why they all used the same magical water profile, book, recipe, and beer final volume, and yet made different beers.
All three never knew that the author they were reading had no clue either.
And the moral of this story is that mineral profiles derived from ppm's (mg/L's) are useless.