Snafu
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Ok, I'm doing a porter tomorrow and I'm haveing a few "issues" with water. Starting water is Ca=27, Mg=6, HCO3=57, Na=36, Cl=24, & SO4=26. So I need to jack up the alkalinity, 9.15 gallons of total mash water (after all additions) and 3.5 gal sparge water. If I add 14g of baking soda and 1g calc. chloride it will get me to the srm's I need (31) and end up on the "malty" side. BUT, here are my final values; Ca=35, Mg=6, CaCO3=288, Na=147, Cl=38, & SO4=26. Should I be worried about the Na being so close to a max value of 150? What is this high value doing to my brew?