tomaso
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I brewed the Brown Porter from Jamil and Palmer's book-
12L (3 Gallon) BIAB batch; 2,1kg Maris otter, 300g Crystal 40, 320g brown malt and 100g chocolate malt.
12L mash, 2,5L 'sparge'
with my water being very soft (43 ppm calcium, 12 ppm Mg and 167 ppm bicarbonates) I put it into The BrunWater sheet, selected the Brown and malty profile and came up with an adjustment of 1,5g of Gypsum and 2,4ml of lactic acid to give me an estimated ph of 5.2 and get the numbers more or less in the range (See pic).
I didn't have any cholride to add so I just used tap water for the little 2,5L BIAB sparge that I do, knowing that this water has chloride.
I checked the ph during the mash and if I can trust the ph meter (was asking about that in another post) it was at around 5.25.
My question now is that the water summary shows my water profile with a RA of -37 basically putting it ouf of the range of any 'traditional' citie's water profile (See pic).
Is that a problem? Did I do something wrong with adding the acid?
Or were my adjustments correct?
Thanks for your help!
12L (3 Gallon) BIAB batch; 2,1kg Maris otter, 300g Crystal 40, 320g brown malt and 100g chocolate malt.
12L mash, 2,5L 'sparge'
with my water being very soft (43 ppm calcium, 12 ppm Mg and 167 ppm bicarbonates) I put it into The BrunWater sheet, selected the Brown and malty profile and came up with an adjustment of 1,5g of Gypsum and 2,4ml of lactic acid to give me an estimated ph of 5.2 and get the numbers more or less in the range (See pic).
I didn't have any cholride to add so I just used tap water for the little 2,5L BIAB sparge that I do, knowing that this water has chloride.
I checked the ph during the mash and if I can trust the ph meter (was asking about that in another post) it was at around 5.25.
My question now is that the water summary shows my water profile with a RA of -37 basically putting it ouf of the range of any 'traditional' citie's water profile (See pic).
Is that a problem? Did I do something wrong with adding the acid?
Or were my adjustments correct?
Thanks for your help!