Brewing with oaked water - Frankenstein experiment

[mrphillips]

Here's my latest Frankenstein idea. I have a water/lemon juice solution in my 2.6 gallon oak barrel to keep it preserved, and after trying the water, I thought it tasted pretty d@mn good. What would you say if I used this water to mash/boil with? I'll have to top it off with a gallon or so of regular water, but is this something anyone has heard of doing before?

This will be a 3 gallon wheatwine partial mash brew. Not sure how the lemon juice will work in it, but that's all part of the experiment! Think it's worth trying?

 

[JonM]

Intriguing. The lemon juice will for sure mess with the pH and make it so low that you'd need to do something to counter it. Do you know the mineral content of the water without the lemon juice?

 

[JJack887]

Definite pH meter needed for this one. Good luck! Cool idea.