ILMSTMF
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Preface - The water profile concepts are over my head. Your patience is appreciated!
I have had some success using a calculator to adjust my strike water. Generally, a conservative (I think?) use of gypsum and epsom salt goes into my recipes. About 1 teaspoon of one or the other, sometimes less.
I found my municipality's water report and I plug those values into the source minerals' fields of the calculator. Here is what it suggests I add to the water for a "dark beer".
My biggest fear is that, because I don't have a good understanding of the fundamentals, I might ruin the mash / beer with these additions. It's easy for me to think "Oh, a half teaspoon of this, a teaspoon of that... what could go wrong?" That is possibly flawed logic. Case in point, why do I only add half of one Campden tablet to treat ~7 gallons of water? Small (physical) addition, potential major result.
That said, how does this addition schedule look? Thanks in advance.
I have had some success using a calculator to adjust my strike water. Generally, a conservative (I think?) use of gypsum and epsom salt goes into my recipes. About 1 teaspoon of one or the other, sometimes less.
I found my municipality's water report and I plug those values into the source minerals' fields of the calculator. Here is what it suggests I add to the water for a "dark beer".
My biggest fear is that, because I don't have a good understanding of the fundamentals, I might ruin the mash / beer with these additions. It's easy for me to think "Oh, a half teaspoon of this, a teaspoon of that... what could go wrong?" That is possibly flawed logic. Case in point, why do I only add half of one Campden tablet to treat ~7 gallons of water? Small (physical) addition, potential major result.
That said, how does this addition schedule look? Thanks in advance.