Bicarbonate of soda

[stubrewworx]

Is this ok to use for water treatment?

 

[RichardM]

Yes

 

[An Ankoù]

Why?

 

[RichardM]

Why?

It unusual, but to raise the pH if you have a dark beer with roasted grains

 

[foxy]

It unusual, but to raise the pH if you have a dark beer with roasted grains

Don't mash your specialty grains, that way you only need to treat the water for the base malts/adjuncts. Keeps water treatment fairly constant and simple.

 

[stubrewworx]

Don't mash your specialty grains, that way you only need to treat the water for the base malts/adjuncts. Keeps water treatment fairly constant and simple.

Yeah I might just do that. I like to keep things simple.

 

[peebee]

Yeap. I'd go along with @foxy but I'm not convinced there will be no implications (steeping dark grains separately or only for "n" minutes at the end of the mash), but there shouldn't be.

Otherwise, "Bicarbonate of Soda" is most certainly a better choice than "chalk" or (gawd forbid) "Baking Powder". Ideally, you'd use "Calcium Bicarbonate", but that can only exist as an inconvenient solution (in water), so "Sodium Bicarbonate" does the job.