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You won't be far wrong with a teaspoon of DWB and the same of AMS
Ha! You shouldn't have said:... it did get a bit more intense than I had thought ...
I for one took you at your word! "Water" is a wonderful subject for kicking off predictable arguments! Although I had predicted more participants.... Intrigued as to what may happen!
Thank you too!Thanks all for the help/advice and suggestions ...
Hi Dave.Hi all,
I am about to start my all grain journey and I want to deal with my water! I have read quite a lot about the subject but as I am at the start I want to do something simple to improve my water until I can progress.
My kit brews were OK but I think they had what I would call an astringent quality - all I did was put a Campden tablet in so not much in the way of experimentation!
I do intend to go into the water profile in more detail but it's a bit too much to deal with at the moment so if anyone has a simple "magic" treatment to give me a good start and give me a nice brew I would be very grateful. I do realise this can be a big rabbit hole to go down.
I live on the South coast if that gives any help at all and I don't really want to be lugging gallons of distilled water back home either! so an ***** proof guide to simple additions would be great.
Thanks in advance of your help.
. You hadn't even looked previously. "Close enough"? Believable; after all it's only 0.5. Of what? We're talking "mEq", "milliequivalents", what the flippin' heck are they. Martin Brungard seems to think its relevant: "should be within 0.5meq/L of each other". Is that "perfectly balanced"? But what would Martin Brungard know? Compared to the all-knowledgeable "Sadfield"?"An earlier post of a calculator available on this site (by Graham Wheeler) displays the same imbalance, but no-one picked-up on it (including the author of the post containing it!)."
They did, but it was close enough as the post was an example of how to fill in the form to return a workable example, without muddying the water further. The instructions with said form clearly states, "If the two figures are wildly different you may wish to jiggle the figures in line 2 until the two numbers are as close as you can get them". To reiterate a point made on numerous occasions, the OP only wanted a push in the right direction, to improve their water. The result, perfectly balanced or not, was to add acid (CRS) and gypsum, similar to the advice finally received from others.
Water doesn't need to be complicated.
Absolutely agree...If it was only H20.
Good tip, I never realised thatWhat signature?
Oops just remembered.. Tip the phone over.
SnapGood tip, I never realised that
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