Liquor treatment - How do you do yours?

[Vossy1]

I love my beer, it clears fine, tastes great and keeps me happy

That's all that counts :thumb: :drink:

I'm not you...but if I were in your situation, and with my anal attention to 'having to know what everything is' I'd get me a RO kit and play with white powders :shock:

FWIW, my beers were not as good as they are now, and mineral additions have made a huge difference for me

I wish I was in your situation :cry: ...maybe one day
I feel a beer tasting session in NZ coming on :lol:

 

[tubby_shaw]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread I have only ever added gypsum to my liquor for pale beers in a purely arbitrary way :wha:
I have never used CRS as I haven't been able to get a total alkalinity figure out of severn trent :twisted:
So I have decided to step things up a gear and try a complete water treatment so to this end I bought one of THESE I already have the CRS gypsum, epsom salts and sodium chloride (common salt), so my next brew will be the same as my last with the exception of a full water treatment, lets see what the difference in the final beer is :hmm:

 

[prolix]

just a small thing but if like me you are on chalk then a good estimate for the amount of CRS to use is to multiply the total liquor in litres by the CaCO3 ppm then dividing by 200.

for me that is 184 ppm CaCO3 and 60l volume

so 184 x 60 / 200 = 55.2

you could use fancy calculators and get 53.4 but hey I never measure that accurately anyhow as the CaCO3 varies from day to day, I do occasionally test the CaCO3 but only after lots of rain or long dry spells, when the water is diluted or concentrated when it can vary by up to 50 ppm

 

[Aleman]

:ugeek:

Prolix . . . that would eliminate all the alkalinity in your liquor, which is not really a good idea, for very pale beers you need about 25ppm, bitter types 50ppm, and darker styles 75-100ppm so using your figures

Pale (184- 25) * 60 / 200 = 47ml ( Or 50 using the more accurate figure of 180 instead of 200)
bitter (184- 50) * 60 / 200 = 40ml ( Or 44)
Dark (184-100) * 60 / 200 = 25ml ( Or 28)

:idea: Ah the light dawneth . . . using the figure of 200 gives you enough residual alkalinity for pale beers . . . Doh! . . . Still the figures stand anyway :lol: