Recent content by illadelph89

so jealous wish i had water that soft instead of having chunks of limestone pouring out of my faucet

+ 1 to yooper, i love apas and ipas but they all had a harsh bitter, sour kinda taste to it. my dark or malty beers didnt have that problem so i got a ward labs test and bam hard water. now i dilute my water and my beers are kick ass

thats a really sweet story congrats

im pretty sure i was looking at it last week in the wegmans in collegeville right off of 422

if you have any friend who work in restaurants i would ask them if they can save you some. im a cook at a restaurant and take the cases and have the dishwashers save the bottles for me. pretty great i have like 13 cases of empty bottles. though i really only keg i have bottles in case.

try screwing around with some bewing software to try and get the same og and srm

could be pulp coming together from the apricot or small particals or pollen from the herbs or natural oils from the fruit anything like that in the secondary

eastoak- i do agree with you, i guess its just the fact 10 more dollars for one thing. plus i didnt know if iron was that important msarro- i have ann artisan well in my backyard

finally decided to get brewsmith2 and noticed the water make up part is pretty interesting and it would help my brewing to get my water tested. i contacted ward labs and got the pricing. the 26 dollar one only tests for 2 more minerals iron and fluoride. i know i don't have fluoride in my water...

do you find fwh is cutting down on the tartness

i will be getting my water tested to figure this out. i also know that i have an artisan well that has alot of limestone which could be part of the problem. i dont know how i feel about the citrus flavor causing a tartness because alot of craft breweries use cascade, centennial and other citrusy...

not really do anything*

if its been fermenting for a for alittle while cooling it down will now really do anything for ester production, if you beer was fermented warm it could also have finished fermenting very rapidly. hydro test is your best bet

well my ipa is edworts house ipa and all my other pale ales are alot of late hops to get the ibus. i was thinking of getting my water checked but last beer i made i checked to ph of the mash and it was alittle high could that have somthing to do with hop flavor or tannins. thank you for the help...

well this has happened through out different beers that last three that i remember are amarillo, galena and warrior