Heady Topper video - 750 total hardness??

[mtnagel]

How do you get to 750 mg/L of hardness without knowing the water chemistry to begin with?

Are you starting with distilled water and adding to bring it up?

That's one way or if you want to use your tap water, you can either find out your water chemistry from your water company or you can have it analyzed at a water testing company. The popular one on here is Ward's testing.

 

[ultravista]

My Las Vegas water report is:
Calcium (Ca+2): 75ppm
Magnesium (Mg+2): 24ppm
Sulfates (SO4-2): 228ppm
Sodium (Na+): 88ppm
Chloride (Cl-): 92ppm
Bicarbonate / Alkalinity: 138ppm
Hardness Total: 285 ppm

What do I need, and how much of it, to bring hardness up to 750 mg/l?

 

[carvetop]

My Las Vegas water report is:
Calcium (Ca+2): 75ppm
Magnesium (Mg+2): 24ppm
Sulfates (SO4-2): 228ppm
Sodium (Na+): 88ppm
Chloride (Cl-): 92ppm
Bicarbonate / Alkalinity: 138ppm
Hardness Total: 285 ppm

What do I need, and how much of it, to bring hardness up to 750 mg/l?

Do you have Bru'n Water? Check out EZ Water Calc if you haven't already. Have you brewed with this water and gotten good results? I don't think I would be the only one to recommend cutting this water with RO or using 100% RO mostly due to the high sodium and alkalinity. From there use one of the water calculators to dial up the hardness with CaSO4 and/or CaCl2.

 

[the_professa]

Hi all, just wanted to bring this thread up again in light of the recent talk about S04:Cl ratios in NE IPAs (possibly including Heady) being as low as 1:1. Thinking about trying something like this but nervous to bring my Cl over 200... any thoughts?

 

[mabrungard]

If you like minerally, 200 ppm Cl is OK. Most people wouldn't like it at all, but you should go for it!

 

[303Dan]

Hi all, just wanted to bring this thread up again in light of the recent talk about S04:Cl ratios in NE IPAs (possibly including Heady) being as low as 1:1. Thinking about trying something like this but nervous to bring my Cl over 200... any thoughts?

I recently just did 200ppm Chloride and 50ppm Sulfate. I can't pick up on any excessive minerality at all. In fact, the beer came out quite good and has a very soft mouthfeel as intended.

 

[malhal]

The name of that brewsheet is "Brewslave© v3.1". I've never seen software with that name, if it exists, please correct me. It's possible he uses his own internal software.

Kimmich likely renamed Noonan's Water Witch spreadsheet which is similar layout and downloadable here:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/heady-topper-results-from-ward-labs.481031/post-6221603

As sweetcell pointed out in the other thread:


If it was software, this wouldn't happen, that calculation is easy.

If the name of the beer, brew date and batch number were printed on top, why would you then write them by hand at the bottom?

I smell a red herring.

Different sheet