TheSlash
Well-Known Member
Agree. Seems odd I've used 3 types of water though.. Charcoal filtered tap, bottled spring in gallon jugs, and bottle spring from diff company in 5 gal jugs... I'll update this after my next brew...
Agree. Seems odd I've used 3 types of water though.. Charcoal filtered tap, bottled spring in gallon jugs, and bottle spring from diff company in 5 gal jugs... I'll update this after my next brew...
Those could very well all be the equivalent of charcoal filtered tap....a lot of water sold as "spring" water says on the label that it's basically filtered tap water that may have originated from a spring at some point.
Interesting! I've seen so much about building distilled or RO up for the specific recipe, but never anywhere giving exact examples. Seems like building distilled up would be cake if people actually said what to do. Is there a spreadsheet or a way in BS2 to do this fast? Like say I'm making an APA, so add this much of this and that and this and go?
Don't most people say if your water tastes fine, brew with it? How can I be so unlucky hehe.
Interesting! I've seen so much about building distilled or RO up for the specific recipe, but never anywhere giving exact examples. Seems like building distilled up would be cake if people actually said what to do. Is there a spreadsheet or a way in BS2 to do this fast? Like say I'm making an APA, so add this much of this and that and this and go?
Don't most people say if your water tastes fine, brew with it? How can I be so unlucky hehe.
It's very interesting to me that we in the homebrew community have made so much of the "don't let the temp of your mash go over 170˚F or you will extract severe tannin astringency from the husk material" rule. Yet, Germans have been boiling their mash for centuries. I do decoction mashes on my Hefe/Dunkelweizens and have never gotten a tannic/astringent character in the wort or the finished product.
Both of those yeasts are noted as having a tart character. I think that's much more responsible than the hops.
I've only used notty once. My previous ones I used starters from WL.
I follow recipes... So doubt it is the hops.. The centennial recipe used under 2 ounces. Was only a mid 20 IBU beer and was probably the most astringent.
Maybe the water profile changes things...
I follow recipes... So doubt it is the hops.. The centennial recipe used under 2 ounces. Was only a mid 20 IBU beer and was probably the most astringent.
Maybe the water profile changes things...
Ive used both spring water and tap water. The best beers I have made were with my tap water.
Water is the easiest and cheapest thing to experiment with, so why not.
Do some one gallon batches until you find your hidden enemy. Hell you can do it all in one day. Use a simple recipe and just each batch do something different. Just stove top it.
Enter your email address to join: