Another water thread - How do I tune water?

[Brewmance]

Greetings,

So I'm struggling understanding this water business. I've read numerous posts and the more recent highlighted variances. I am understanding the different values, flavors they add and what contributes to them.

What I am missing is...how many grams of X = this many PPM of X?

Because I am not wasting money on a water report (moving soon) and its only a temporary glimpse, I've been using Distilled, which, in my understanding has a base of 0 of all salts. How do I know the impact of a gram of this or that? is there a chart that states 1 gram of Gypsum = 100ppm etc?

Thank you for your help! :rockin:

 

[Yooper]

Greetings,

So I'm struggling understanding this water business. I've read numerous posts and the more recent highlighted variances. I am understanding the different values, flavors they add and what contributes to them.

What I am missing is...how many grams of X = this many PPM of X?

Because I am not wasting money on a water report (moving soon) and its only a temporary glimpse, I've been using Distilled, which, in my understanding has a base of 0 of all salts. How do I know the impact of a gram of this or that? is there a chart that states 1 gram of Gypsum = 100ppm etc?

Thank you for your help! :rockin:

Yes, there are charts. Well, not technically charts I guess but spreadsheets. You put 0s in for your source water, and then you can see how many ppm you get from gypsum and calcium chloride and baking soda, etc.

I tend to use Bru'nwater: https://sites.google.com/site/brunwater/ but I've also been experimenting with this one more and more and like it so far (this is the 'simple' one): https://www.brewersfriend.com/water-chemistry/ This is the 'advanced' one: https://www.brewersfriend.com/mash-chemistry-and-brewing-water-calculator/

 

[MapleGroveAleworks]

Teach yourself BruNWater. It will tell you exactly how much to use of all the minerals.