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A Brewing Water Chemistry Primer
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How to Order a Water Analysis Report
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pH Meter Calibration
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Measuring Calcium Chloride
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The 0 Effective Alkalinity Method
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Brewing with Low Alkalinity Water
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Malt Titration (finding pHDI, a, b and c)
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Calculating Bicarbonate and Carbonate
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Why Phosphoric Acid is Flavor Neutral
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Campden Tablets (Sulfites) and Brewing Water
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Great Online Information Sources
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ColorpHast pH Strip Information
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RO water for All Grain
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PH drops from 5.68 to 5.14 after mash! How could it happen?
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Lagering is useless
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Measure OG without hydrometer?
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chipmunk
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dbsmith
Question: Is it possible to know mineral content of brewing water from a finished beer.
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couchsending
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Brooothru
Wort pH and Risk of Botulism
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Erik the Anglophile
Table salt for water adjustment?
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Phos acid added 20 minutes late, but ...
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Can Teawine get oxidized ?
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ebbelwoi
potential and yield of maltose
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Surly
Considerations when purchasing a home RO system.
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TimmyR
Dry Irish Stout Water - advice needed.
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Water Analysis Results - San Marcos, Texas
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How long are water analysis reports considered valid?
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Sammy86
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Wort left on counter for 4 days, risk?
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A 'ballpark' perspective on how weakly 'acidic' or 'basic' a couple malts are with respect to targeting pH 5.4
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Homemade Invert Sugar pH
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Alan Reginato
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Recommendations for water lab analysis
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Scaling up a water profile
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When to add sparge water acid
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2.5 gal. Brews and salt additions
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Is the brown foam wild yeast?
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Hefeweizen Water Profile?
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Overheated mash --> hay/tannins in beer?
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shelly_belly
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Shalenkur
How to preserve well water?
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Dgallo
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GertSels
HCO3 Water report wrong?
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My local water report
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day_trippr
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Too many chemicals bad news?
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treacheroustexan
Verify my Bru’n water setup!
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Trivia for the day: Density is not Specific Gravity
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Stripping oxygen from strike water using CO2
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Does Sunlight Affect Wort?
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Question regarding the dissociation pKa(s) of NaHCO3 (Baking Soda)
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Help Figuring Out Home Water Profile?
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Question about Carbonate reducing solution
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Lodovico
Inside/Outside Fermenter Temperature Question
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A simple way to infer a ballpark initial grist weight via known mash efficiency, volume, and OG
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SFC Rudy
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Co2 purity
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Blended CO2 Levels not making sense
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cactusgarrett
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wsmith1625
Water Sample for Water Test
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Buckeye_Hydro
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Yet more evidence that commercial brewers do not mash at 5.2 to 5.6 pH ...
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Big Monk
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Calcium carbonate v. calcium hydroxide for acid reduction
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z-bob
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Miscellaneous ramblings with regard to Buffering Capacity (BC) expressed as mEq/Kg_pH vs. as a log (base 10)
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wsmith1625
Water treatment advise
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Beermeister32
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Advice on water profile for chocolate cherry dessert stout
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