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Well, I’ve managed to get myself a PH meter and just out of curiosity i check my tap water and got the reading 162 PPM, can anyone tell me what this means please?

I’m assuming that you still mash your grains? and then do you just skip the boil and go straight to fermentation?

Thanks for all that mate, looks like i have a lot of homework to do, luckily I’m on night shift tonight so will have something to read at bait times. Much appreciated.

I’ve never tried a “no boil” brew and wouldn’t even know where to start tbh.

Appreciate it mate, what are you brewing? I was meant to be brewing my Neck Oil clone kit yesterday but the wife had other more important issues to deal with. (Shopping)

I’ve taken your advice and ordered both, plus some malts and Verdant yeast. Thanks All. @Benfleet, i would have went with your suggestions as that seems like a canny little home brew supplier, but MM had the Verdant yeast so went with them instead. I think (hope) that i now understand the...

Thanks and yes please.

Thanks again and I’ll get them ordered up 👍

Thanks Benfleet. As a rule of thumb, what do i need? I’m new to all this water treatment so would appreciate some advice. If I’m opaying postage i may as well get everything i need, but I’ve just bought hops from KegThat, however i will look at the malts on WHS as i need to stock up.

Anyone have any recommendations where i can get hold of these water additions? My local home brew shop doesn’t sell them.

I’m surprised at that, i always assumed (wrongly) that RO was better, I’ll get some ordered and work with that. I have done a few extract kits with my tap water and they turned out ok.

Below is what i could get for my area from the local water supplier, all measurements are average and in mg/l CaCO3 Calcium Carbonate - 73.79 Chloride - 13.99 Alkalinity (HC03) - 48.17 Calcium - 24.47 Magnesium - 3.07 Sodium - 11.46 Sulphate - 44.04

Thanks, however i have actually brewed a NEIPA previously using RO water and it turned out fine. It was slightly on the bitter side at first but after a week in the keg it started to improve and is now very drinkable, although for me it lacked that wow factor, hence the interest in water...

Hi Guys, I’ve done a few All Grain kits to date with the last 2 using RO water neat. I was wondering is there a go to recipe for treating this water? I realise it depends on the grain bill, hops, yeast etc, but is there like a universal recipe that would suffice? PS: at the minute i don’t...

I don’t have a stove top mate, i use a Klarstein mash kettle (electric) and a Fermzilla fermenter and always close transfer between the two and into the corny keg.

I’ve got a Neck Oil Clone kit from KegThat which i plan to brew this weekend and if it turns out anything like the real Neck Oil I’ll be delighted.

Thanks for all the advice guys, now looking forward to next weekend so i can get the brew on.

Not at all mate, that’s a typo in the online recipe, there’s actually 50gms of cascade at day 3 for dry hop.

The Neck Oil Clone Recipe Batch Size Losses Boil Time Mash Efficiency Mash Volume Sparge Volume 21 L 2 L 60 mins 80% 14.30 L 14.90 L OG (SG) 1.044 FG (SG) 1.011 IBU 60.5 Colour (EBC) 17.4 ABV 4.29% Mash and Sparge volumes calculated using the “Grainfather G30 Connect –...

Starsan in a spray bottle also works.