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Hello all
I'm currently making up a kit beer..Simply Beer...Bitter plus 1kg DME as opposed to my normal AG brews ad I'm short on time.
I've done loads of kits but never treated the water...as I now do with AG..Campden and profile adjustment.
I'm cutting brew size to about 20 litres as I'm kegging it and will definitely treat enough water with Campden to remove chlorine but this has got me thinking of treating the water with my normal additions. The extract is already mashed but can I treat my water,pro rata as I would my sparge for AG. I usually sparge with around 23l,the volume I need to get to around 20l is 17l providing I used about 3l of boiling water to mix the extract to start.
Thanks
 
I understood we treat water to effect the mash. Therfore.. kit = no mash = no need.

I treat mine because it got so hard in started beer rock on the bottles.

Perhaps a bit of DWB for fermentation?


At mate of mine once said.

An Ankoù said:
Come now.... "Go in with a splash of CRS" :laugh8:
Click to expand...

Or something like that.
 
I'm getting 1.041ish but had a mare mixing it in. I got the second one done quicker as I mixed the DME with cold water to start but didn't take a reading as I'd put the lid and blow off tube on and didn't want to mess about with it any more.
 
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Clint said:
I'm getting 1.041ish but had a mare mixing it in. I got the second one done quicker as I mixed the DME with cold water to start but didn't take a reading as I'd put the lid and blow off tube on and didn't want to mess about with it any more.
Click to expand...
How are you mixing the dme? I've found that putting the dme into the empty fermenter, adding off boiling water to it then swirling mixes it in very well

Cheers Tom
 

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