Bettering oneself ('s beer brewing)-the biggest improvement

[mysterio]

Liquid yeasts & starters, temperature control, plenty of hops.

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Buy some CRS, no need to boil

Only if you actually know the alkalinity of the water in the first place!!! Randomly throwing acids and water treatment salts at a liquor is not water treatment! It is more akin to witch craft!!!

You'll need to buy an alkalinity test kit from your local aquarium shop or ebay.

 

[craigite]

the biggest leap forward was switching to liquid yeast about 10 years ago. Big improvement.

I have to agree with this also :thumb: if you are brewing something special or a spacific style of beer, liquid yeast or even culturing from the bottle (providing the same yeast strain is used for fermentation & bottle conditioning)is the way to go. :grin:

OK, so I said taking notes, might change my mind here, yeast was a masive change for me too.

 

[tubby_shaw]

I was going to say gaining patience
But, the ready availability of quality ingredients over the last few years has got to be the biggest contributor to my beer quality