Water Profile For Bishops Finger Clone

[private4587]

Hi everyone i am hoping in the next few days to make a Bishops Finger Clone and was wondering if anyone could help me with a water profile for this brew, i have the option of using 100% RO water or 50/50 home water and RO water. Many thanks in advance

 

[rank_frank]

Shepherd Neame draw their water from an artesian well under chalk and their beer has a mineral tang to me. I wouldn't use just RO water as it'll probably be too soft. What's your tap water like?

 

[NIGHTSKY BREWING]

Try a burton on Trent profile...

 

[private4587]

Tanks for your replies gents, my water is northumbrian and is relatively soft

 

[rank_frank]

at a guess I'd think you'd need some Calcium in there at a minimum. As your tap water is soft this probably Calcium poor and RO water won't have any you really should think about getting some salts to compensate. But in the absence of that, if you were to use one or the other I'd probably go with 100% tap water.