Newbie here. I've been brewing/browsing the forums since Thanksgiving. I have a couple of all-grain batches under my belt and now want to take a look at my water. It took a month for the city Public Works Director to finally get me the following on the tap water.
PH 8.4
Total dissolved solids NA
Na 76.1 mg/l
K 0.5 mg/l
Ca 0.4 mg/l
Mg 0.001 mg/l
Hardness, CaCO3 1.2 mg/l
Nitrate <0.080 mg/l
Sulfate 5.7 mg/l
Chloride <6.0 mg/l
Carbonate NA
Bicarbonate NA
Alkalinity 3.2 mg/l
Appears to be high in Na. If I want to keep it simple, it looks like I could just dilute and follow the primer posted here. Correct?
Where I get confused is when I try to use Bru'n water with the alkalinity. Since I don't have the Carbonate/Bicarb values, I'm trying to use the alkalinity values to estimate. If I enter the 3.2 mg/l as total alkalinity, I get estimated bicarb as 3.8. This results in cation/anion imbalance of 2.99 so something seems off. The other option is to enter alkalinity as 3.2 meq/L even though the it was reported as mg/l. Are these the same or is there a conversion? If I enter as 3.2, I get a 195 bicarb value and a cation/anion imbalance of .14 so this seems more likely.
Any suggestions on how to handle the alkalinity/bicarb values or I am totally off?
Thanks for the help.
PH 8.4
Total dissolved solids NA
Na 76.1 mg/l
K 0.5 mg/l
Ca 0.4 mg/l
Mg 0.001 mg/l
Hardness, CaCO3 1.2 mg/l
Nitrate <0.080 mg/l
Sulfate 5.7 mg/l
Chloride <6.0 mg/l
Carbonate NA
Bicarbonate NA
Alkalinity 3.2 mg/l
Appears to be high in Na. If I want to keep it simple, it looks like I could just dilute and follow the primer posted here. Correct?
Where I get confused is when I try to use Bru'n water with the alkalinity. Since I don't have the Carbonate/Bicarb values, I'm trying to use the alkalinity values to estimate. If I enter the 3.2 mg/l as total alkalinity, I get estimated bicarb as 3.8. This results in cation/anion imbalance of 2.99 so something seems off. The other option is to enter alkalinity as 3.2 meq/L even though the it was reported as mg/l. Are these the same or is there a conversion? If I enter as 3.2, I get a 195 bicarb value and a cation/anion imbalance of .14 so this seems more likely.
Any suggestions on how to handle the alkalinity/bicarb values or I am totally off?
Thanks for the help.