Brewfater Water Adjustments

[Touristbob76]

I am setting up a NEIPA in brewfater and found a water profile I wanted to use. I created a custom profile for it and used it allong with distilled water as the starting water for the brew. I put all the info in the recipe and set the mash and sparge water volumes for my system and hit auto on the water profile for the salt additions. My question is why are the calculated amounts different from the ones I input from the target profile? I attached a screenshot to show what I mean. Is this normal or am I missing something? I'm new to doing water adjustments and to brewfater so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[quantumguy]

It really only has a few chemicals to vary to try to fit all of the values in your profile. I think it prioritizes Ca first and then tries to match the others as close as it can get. Everything is pretty strongly correlated. To get the Ca up it has to also change the sulfate and chloride levels (depending on how you increase the Ca, either by CaSO4 or CaCl2). You can manually tweak the result of Auto as well by increasing/decreasing the amounts of CaSO4, etc. For a NEIPA it's probably more important to get the Cl- up (and SO4 down) where you want it rather than having that high Ca level. I would play with manually decreasing the gypsum and increase the CaCl2.

 

[Touristbob76]

I got it, I was asuming that the auto button was optimal but manually adjusting the salts work, thanks for the help though.