Stock Solutions Help

[coffutt]

Could anyone simply explain how to create stock solutions at a concentration meaningful for building brewing water? And how does one apply the working solution to meet the mineral additions required to build such a water?

Two more....how does the soluability of different salts come into play? If there is residual minerals on the bottom, a simple shake back into solution, or are they mixed at such a concentration that there will be no settling??

How does the hygroscopicity (sp) come into play? Will, say calcium chloride stay at the same concentrations once mixed, assuming no evaporation?

I think a few examples of how people are working with stock solutions would be great to explain these questions...maybe relating to the water chemistry sticky starting with RO water...

thanks

 

[ajdelange]

Calcium chloride is covered at https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f128/measuring-calcium-chloride-501377/

For gypsum, table salt, sodium bicarbonate, potassium chloride etc. adding enough water to 10 grams to make 100 cc of solution gives you 0.1 gram/cc

For lime a saturated solution (add lime powder to water, shake, allow liquid to clear, use the clear liquid but use it quickly) is about 0.05 N.