Ocean / Sea Water?

[StMarcos]

If you calculate your dilution so that the sodium is within, but towards the higher end of the recommended levels, I'd do it. Seawater should have around 400ppm Ca and 1200ppm Mg, wfiw.....

 

[m3n00b]

Barf. Put a few ml in a 5 gal batch....that way you can say it's in there without actually ruining a batch.

 

[MerlinUWard]

Was just researching and formulating this idea for a recipe, when I ran across this forum thread. I've done some calculations, and as Gose has become a more popular style since 2012-13, I figured I'd share what I found.

Seat water has roughly 35,000 ppm salt. Thats about 133 grams/gal (see this website for conversion).
If the whole batch were made with sea water, you'd have 665 grams of salt in a 5 gallon batch, so you need to dilute. The typical Gose recipe has 18-21 grams of sea salt addition for a 5 gallon batch. So, the dilute comes to roughly 97:3::water:sea water.

Working out the ratio, that comes to roughly 0.51 - 0.60 liters (or quarts, they're similar enough) of sea water addition to the boil. Adding to the full length of the boil ensures that you get kill anything harmful in the sea water.

Good luck and great drinking!

 

[Propilotdave]

This thread is very useful to your ocean water cause - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f13/sea-water-gose-456209/

Note the fella who found the salinity (probably average as each I ean has a documented salinity...all of which are different) then converted that to ounces per given volume - now that's homebrewer ingenuity! Cheers

 

[beergut]

Did you end up trying this? I am toying with doing something similar

 

[MerlinUWard]

I did and it was great! Had a very obvious salt character. If you want just a hint of salt is say bring it down to 0.4 l salt water.

 

[passedpawn]

How to make Iceberg beer

 

[sbartelski]

Google spanish beer sea water, to find the Spanish brewer that does just that, brews beer with (modified) sea water. I tried a bottle while in Spain, pretty good.
Stefan

I am thinking of making my next beer with a little bit of ocean water. I know this sounds absurd, but hopefully its doable. I live on the ocean, and would love to do something unique. What if I collected 1 gallon or a 1/2 gallon of water from the Atlantic, and somehow sanitized it? I imagine that the evaporation and increased saline will be an issue. I suppose I would have to add this late in the boil or at flame out.

Anyone have any take on this? I would be doing an extract recipe, but any suggestions on style, etc are appreciated. I thought I remember someone telling me that Amstel Brights in Aruba are made from the sea water...But I might be incorrect. I also understand this might turn out to be more of a novelty than anything else.

Thanks!

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

From one New Yorker to another you couldn't pay me to drink the sludge we swim in... I have an non removable stain on my boat from brown tide from the excessive nitrogen from the CESSPOOLS leaching into the water....bad idea

 

[mtnsongbird]

Don't get discouraged by these dudes, barkscruff! I'm currently in Brittany, France, and jist last night tried a commercially available beer that's brewed using sea water. Now, I have no idea what ratio or process they are using but it's not unheard of. Go forth and dig deep into Breton brewing!