Water report!?

[suffolkbeer]

So, work cancelled today due to snow ️.

I’ve got my local water report and was wondering if it is generally ok for most types of beer?

http://waterquality.anglianwater.com/mergedreport.aspx

To be honest I’ve brewed pale ales, IPAs and stout without noticing any issues and the beer tasted good to me!

 

[ACBEV]

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[suffolkbeer]

Oh dear,
I’ll try and cut and paste or something

 

[suffolkbeer]

 

[suffolkbeer]

Does this make sense to anyone???

 

[JonBrew]

I cant read the image you've uploaded, the text is too small and cant be zoomed. The key info your looking for is Calcium, Sulphate and Chloride ppm, also Magnesium, and Sodium. The other key number is water hardness.

 

[suffolkbeer]

I’ll try again

 

[suffolkbeer]

Hope that’s the relevant bits?

 

[HopHead420]

The single most important thing you need to be aware of is your alkalinity, other things matter, but alkalinity more than anything else determines what you'll need to do to your water to get the mash in the right place. From a brief look at your water I am guessing you are in Ipswich? I am also in Suffolk, but in an area with about 25% more of almost every ion. Anyway, your water is likely to be bad for Pale beer and good for Dark beer, I suggest you check out the advanced water chemsitry calculator on brewer's friend, into which you can plug all your water parameters from the excellent Anglian water report, as well as your planned mash and sparge water amounts, and your grist, and this will tell you what sort of mash pH you're looking at. As a brief guide you want to be between 5.2 and 5.6. You could print a full copy of the report as a pdf to save you cutting and pasting different parts here.

For what it's worth the water in coastal Suffolk can make blindingly good pale beers despite its lack of suitability, it just requires attention to detail in water treatment. Water treatment may seem scary and or unimportant, but it's actually really easy, and incredibly important.

 

[Lowcliff]

Have a look at Strange Steves Beginners guide to water treatment. https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/beginners-guide-to-water-treatment.64822/