Recent content by bborren

After 10 years of brewing I thought I would finally enter a brewing competition to get some feedback. I entered 2 competitions, one this past spring and one this summer. I never received a scorecard from either one. According to the organizers my entries must have been lost. I guess I will...

Northern brewer has been slow with its order processing for about a year now. I don't know if it came about because of the warehouse merger or what. Now they are a big company and I am sure they get a ton of orders but their unreliable processing times has me looking for a new shop. They...

Yes, I just had a brewer's water test done a few weeks ago and I am very happy with them. They send you a bottle for your water and a pre-paid return label to send it back to them. The turn around is very quick, you get the results emailed to you one day after they receive your sample.

Thanks for the replies. It appears that the amount of work it would take to fix my water would be more hassle than it is worth. I think that I will try buying RO water and follow the steps from the brewing water primer to see what that gets me. If I get the hang of water chemistry that way...

I read your post about decarbonation by boiling on the homebrewers association board after you post above. Using the formula, Ending Ca (ppm) = Starting Ca (ppm) - ((starting HCO3 (ppm) - ending HCO3 (ppm))/3.05), and figuring to end with 80 ppm of Bicarbonate, would leave me with a negative Ca...

So I am not new to brewing but I am new to water chemistry. I have been using bottled spring water for all of my beer and it seems to work ok but not great so I feel that I need to make a change. I sent a sample of my water to Ward Labs and put the results in the Brunwater spreadsheet. I am...