I want to start playing around with the water chemistry.
Congratulations on your beer improvement quest. Water chemistry makes such a huge difference in the quality of one's beer. Playing with tap water can be challenging so if you have access to cheep RO such as a grocery store fill station, I'd go that route.
You should be able to access an online report but your best bet is to gather a sample and send it in for analysis. There's online resources and other's said it's only $30. The only issue is tap water can change overtime. Sticking with a known base water solves the issue. It cost me $1.75/5gal of RO, worth every penny. I use Brew'n Water for the calculations also. Good luck!
The water were I live at is hard and very cloudy, we never drink it. I always use RO water when I brew but never treat it. The guy at my local
brew shop recommended ACCUMASH. He said added to the RO water when mashing. I’m brewing a Golden as we speak, let’s see how it turns out.
Has anybody use ACCUMASH?
The water were I live at is hard and very cloudy, we never drink it. I always use RO water when I brew but never treat it. The guy at my local
brew shop recommended ACCUMASH. He said added to the RO water when mashing. I’m brewing a Golden as we speak, let’s see how it turns out.
Has anybody use ACCUMASH?
IMHO there's too many things going on counteracting eachother. Yooper told me once that less is more...believe it. Your lake water looks great! Filter it and use Gypsum and Calcium Chloride for sodium at 70 and choride at 90. You should be good. With darker beers, in general, no need to add acid. Alkalinity looks ok to me. In general if you can drink it then brew with it. Austin water is 9.5pH so I use RO and remineralize.Hey guys, still trying to get info on water chemistry. I’m going to start using Lake Michigan water and here is the profile:
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I plan on brewing a porter tomorrow, not sure if I will be messing with the water chemistry. I’ve been playing with brewers friend and here are a couple of snapshots. Hope you can read them.
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Please let me know, if I’m headed the right direction.
Cheers!!!!
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