reidjoshua
Active Member
This will be the first time I'm adding anything to my water for my all grain brews...
I'm doing a Vanilla Maple Porter and using John Palmer's spreadsheet, came out with needing to add 17 grams of baking soda to get the alkalinity I need for my SRM which is 42.
I wanted to post to see if anyone can tell me if this is correct or not. I read another thread on another site where someone in my area was suggested to add 90/10 or 80/20 gypsum to baking soda for his Porter but under Additional Hardness Needed there's a big fat 0, which adding any gypsum would bump up.
Here are the numbers for my local water...
Target Color (SRM) 42
Est. RA (Low) 390
Est. RA (High) 449
Calcium 23.6ppm
Magnesium 5ppm
Alkalinity as CaCO3 50
Sodium N/A (doesn't change anything if I put numbers in here anyways)
Chloride 29ppm
Sulfate 30ppm
Water pH 7.2
Effective Hardness 20
Residual Alkalinity 31
SRM Range 8-13
Target R/A 420
Mash water 7 gal
Additional Hardness Needed 0
Additional Alkalinity Needed 389
Target RA SRM 40-44
17 grams of Baking Soda/NaHCO3 would give me 382 additional alkalinity.
Is it just that easy to add a few teaspoons of Baking soda to my mash water to get me where I need to be?
Thanks for any help!
I'm doing a Vanilla Maple Porter and using John Palmer's spreadsheet, came out with needing to add 17 grams of baking soda to get the alkalinity I need for my SRM which is 42.
I wanted to post to see if anyone can tell me if this is correct or not. I read another thread on another site where someone in my area was suggested to add 90/10 or 80/20 gypsum to baking soda for his Porter but under Additional Hardness Needed there's a big fat 0, which adding any gypsum would bump up.
Here are the numbers for my local water...
Target Color (SRM) 42
Est. RA (Low) 390
Est. RA (High) 449
Calcium 23.6ppm
Magnesium 5ppm
Alkalinity as CaCO3 50
Sodium N/A (doesn't change anything if I put numbers in here anyways)
Chloride 29ppm
Sulfate 30ppm
Water pH 7.2
Effective Hardness 20
Residual Alkalinity 31
SRM Range 8-13
Target R/A 420
Mash water 7 gal
Additional Hardness Needed 0
Additional Alkalinity Needed 389
Target RA SRM 40-44
17 grams of Baking Soda/NaHCO3 would give me 382 additional alkalinity.
Is it just that easy to add a few teaspoons of Baking soda to my mash water to get me where I need to be?
Thanks for any help!