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I was discussing water chemistry with a fellow brewer and he mentioned that he filtered (Pur, Brita, etc) his water prior to brewing but still based his water chemistry calculations off of his initial water report. He swears that it doesn't change the value of the important ions and that he...

I took my second shot at AG over the weekend, trying to brew an American Pale Ale. I barely hit the 70% efficiency on my initial AG batch so I put some time into to improving my process; working my water chemistry, having a friend crush my grain, etc. All of the work seems to have paid off...

I'm about to embark on my second AG batch and finally decided to suck it up and tackle the Bru'n Water sheet. My goals were to reach an RA that fell within the appropriate range for an APA (8.2 SRM) and an appropriate SO4/Cl ratio that favors the bitterness/hops. Water Input: Sparge...

Ran my first all-grain about three weeks ago and made a basic Heffeweisen with the crowd favorite Wyeast 3068. I hit my FG last Friday and bottled on Saturday. I noticed a relatively strong sulfur smell at bottling but figured it would condition out. After checking a bottle today...

Got my report back from Ward. Water is from a small community well. pH 7.1 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm 157 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 0.26 Cations / Anions, me/L 2.6 / 2.4 Sodium, Na 10 Potassium, K 4 Calcium, Ca 36 Magnesium, Mg 3 Total Hardness, CaCO3 103 Nitrate, NO3-N 0.1...

I brewed an entire 5 gallon batch of Porter but as this is only my second batch of beer want to do some experimentation with dry hopping. I picked up 2 three gallon carboys and plan to split the batch. In one I'd like to leave it alone and the other I'd like to dry hop with Fuggles. I have...