DrunkenCanuck
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Hey guys,
It's been a while since I last posted. I've been brewing on and off and trying different styles. A couple of weeks ago I brewed a Gose, and my grain bill was fine, post boil my beer colour was fine, but during the end of fermentation my beer started going orange. I notice this a lot when I try to make pale beers and I can't seem to figure out why. I use UV filtered tap water that I believe is also softened, but I am not sure because I don't have access to the basement water unit. It seems to be a constant that no matter what I brew, if it isn't using dark roasted malts, I can't get that straw and pale colour out of my beers.
One of those cheap water test kits suggested that I have low water alkalinity, there isn't much calcium in the water and my pH coming out of the tap is around 7.8 pH. I plan on rebrewing again this weekend and just racking off the crappy discoloured beer and using the leftover yeast cake to ferment a new back. But before that, I need to figure out why my beer keeps discolouring on me during fermentation.
Any ideas what I might be failing to do with my water?
It's been a while since I last posted. I've been brewing on and off and trying different styles. A couple of weeks ago I brewed a Gose, and my grain bill was fine, post boil my beer colour was fine, but during the end of fermentation my beer started going orange. I notice this a lot when I try to make pale beers and I can't seem to figure out why. I use UV filtered tap water that I believe is also softened, but I am not sure because I don't have access to the basement water unit. It seems to be a constant that no matter what I brew, if it isn't using dark roasted malts, I can't get that straw and pale colour out of my beers.
One of those cheap water test kits suggested that I have low water alkalinity, there isn't much calcium in the water and my pH coming out of the tap is around 7.8 pH. I plan on rebrewing again this weekend and just racking off the crappy discoloured beer and using the leftover yeast cake to ferment a new back. But before that, I need to figure out why my beer keeps discolouring on me during fermentation.
Any ideas what I might be failing to do with my water?