Water Profile for Pilsners

[dcbrewmeister]

they don't specificly say something like "this boiling will have little or no effect on calcium, mangesium, sulfate, etc." but they do not warn that using this profess will result making your original water profile "not exist" or apply any more.

I know, I've read similar (if not the same) stuff. Because nobody comes out and says boiling removes XX, so the only thing I can come up with it makes the levels more concentrated becaue you boil out the (some) water and the minerals stay.

Not sure, same statement though, boiling makes your water profile non-existant <shrugs>

 

[Fiery Sword]

blyme!!!!!
Long story, late night, many beers consumed.

Last minute, I come to realization that some anomalies I'm seeing in the water calcs mean one thing:
With my local water supply, I am dealing with chloramine and not chlorine.

A(n) <amazing> number of previous tasting notes regarding phenolic tones now make sense to me. I'm tempted to say that I am moving towards culturing RO/DI or distilled as opposed to dealing with that sh*t.

Feel like saying: F*CKoNG EmDubyaR-A foXing b*stardZ!!!!!!!! Pushing ammonia into my beers, and not acknowledging it in last years water report??? .....Simply not in a sound enough mood to go glass-is-half-full right now.

Decision to be made in morning. Will the pilsner happen?????? Stay tuned....

 

[dcbrewmeister]

Pushing ammonia into my beers, and not acknowledging it in last years water report??? .....Simply not in a sound enough mood to go glass-is-half-full right now.

They probablly changed at some point and put some stupid little ad in the paper.

Water profiles can change - San Antonio's water supply is an underground auquifer system. The "quality" of the water changes when we don't get any rain and the level drops. They are also "watch dogs" in areas over a recharge zone. Contaminants can get into the entire water supply if it gets in from the right recharge area. It has yet to happen.

They started adding flouride a few years back - people got pissed - I'm pretty sure the people yelling the loudest had no idea what flouride is.

 

[Kaiser]

I found that activated charcoal filtering will remove a sufficient amount of colramines. You should try this before you drop the money on an R/O system.

Kai

 

[Fiery Sword]

It's glass-is-half-full time. There seem to be a couple of options to go from here, the first being what we are going to do for this beer.

A friend of mine is an aquarium guy and have a Water General RoDI unit. He is prepping us a 6 gallon batch right now. The pils is going to have to happen tomorrow and today I'm going to have to hunt down some additives that I don't have.

Secondly, it appears that a small part of a campden tablet would convert all the
cloromine to chloride, sulfate and ammonia-- quickly. Mr. Wizard
addresses this here. The verdict is out on how much additional chloride and
sulfate will end up in the "profile" as a result of this though. There is probably some easy way to figure it out...

Lastly, I am going to do some more reading on the charcoal filtering as you mentioned, Kai. Pricing out a RoDI setup is also going to be part of the day's research, or convincing my aquarium friend to supply us in exchange for costs of new filters.....

In the end, I guess this is good stuff to figure out. In a way, I'm glad we chose to dive into a Pils......we probably wouldn't have realized a lot of this stuff if we kept with the pales and browns as we were originally planning. Thanks for the info, and I'll keep the thread posted about how we proceed. Dangit I wish I were brewing right now!!!!:fro: