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I dropped to the mid 60's. Well this is what beer smith tells me after I enter the corrected post boil measured SG.

OK, so If I go with RO water, I can try and build a profile for a specific beer type? As an example, I am looking a basic water profile for the city of Pilsen. So I can use RO (or distilled) water and build a profile to mimic the water profile of Pilsen? I do own an electric water...

Yikes! Those meters are spendy! How about this one? https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01MYV3938/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

Makes me wonder what the microbreweries in Calgary are doing for water? Some of those guys make really good beer.

ok... First off, I appreciate your candor and guidance. I can certainly concede (now) to an inferior pH meter and being lazy on the calibration. This meter is similar to the ones I used during my printing days. Calibration for those back then was the same as the instructions on the one I...

This is the meter I bought. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01N1P90AF/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 I used the green buffer package and adjusted the meter to match. I didn't have distilled water so I used some RO water to add the buffer to. May have thrown off the calibration? Idk. The...

Here is the water report for Calgary. Honestly this stuff is making my head swim, I tried using Bru'n water but hell if I could make heads or tails of it.

I bought a brand new digital pH meter and calibrated it with the calibration buffer pack that came with it. I am quite confident that it is calibrated correctly. Also, I was a journeyman pressman for many, many years... we had to use pH testers (including calibrating them) to measure and...

Ok wait a sec here.... now I feel like I am too thick to understand this. So are you saying that I want alkalinity? I thought I was shooting for a pH of 5.2 in my mash? Wouldn't that pH be considered acidic rather than alkaline?

Hmm all good info Jimbodaman and RM-MN. So I was thinking about food grade phosphoric acid. Although I do have a container of some chemical the HBS sold me. I want to say calcium chloride? Can't remember off the top of my head. I've also read of some sort of "add and forget" buffering...

Right... so I have ran into my first problem with no sparge brewing... and that is my mash pH is ALL WRONG! Just tested with a calibrated pH meter and after cooling a sample, my mash was at 7.1 Reason I noticed something was off is that my efficiency appeared to drop off from what I was...

HAHAHAHA!!! Been there! Made the "Fall Down Brown Ale" recipe that you can find on these forums. 3 pints and suddenly cutting grass is not overly important! I also made a SMaSH once that was really high. I thought maybe I should have added an "ed" to the end of it. SMaSHed... lol

Lol your emote is called "mug". So is that "Malt Users Group"? Lol

Screenshot from my Beer Smith. Ingredients state "Flaked Rice", but it is just Minute Rice I use... as BS does not have Minute Rice in the ingredient database. Also this brew I just used domestic Pale malt as the HBS didn't have any Marris Otter in stock. The guy said that If I could tell the...

Here is a product shot of my "Maris Otter SMaSH Ale". Fast shutter speed to "stop" the bubbles. Pictures don't help with tasting the beer. But here is how it turns out after clearing and kegging.. oh and I guess you'll just have to take my word on it. It is very tasty!

HAHA I did indeed. But also it helps to have a wife who loves beer...

While don't do 1 gallon batches.. I use the minikeg for camping or bringing beer out of my house. Love them!

So here is the "Bubba" keg and tap that my wife bought me. Holds 5 Liters. It also came with a picnic tap connection so that I can put it in a cooler while camping to ease beer pouring!

You said it all man! I bet there would be people who would scoff at my 5 Gal process..(although I am trying to conform to correct processes) but Guess what? I am making the best beer of my life and that is all that matters.

oh wait... I guess I had to log into the BS website and make the recipes shared! Done. Just search for "Maris -" you'll find me.