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Expanded water quality report?
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I'm a fairly new resident of Lower Bucks County (Levittown, to be exact), and while I received the most recent Water Quality Report from our municipal authority, it was not nearly as detailed as I'd…
Started this discussion. Last reply by Eivind Sandstrand Oct. 12, 2009.
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Cool, thanks!
I wonder how close your water specifics are to mine, seeing as we probably draw from the same source, only to different water works on opposite sides of the river.
I look forward to testing out (in due time) modifying the water profi…
Yes! I always had trouble brewing hoppy beers and only recently started looking at water. I was really happy with my last IPA (a Lagunitas clone). The magic ingredient... gypsum!
If you look at my report, you'll see that my water only contains abou…
I was thinking about this very same thing a couple of weeks ago, and even pestered a couple of neighbors of mine who work in the "field" for tips.
Sam, from what you received back, did it impact any of your recipes, water adjustments, etc?
Thanks,…
As far as I know, you're right. Activated charcoal filtration removes chlorine/chloramine and some organic compounds. The sample I sent was filtered through activated charcoal. I decided to send the filtered water because that's what I use to brew w…
One more thing, and I think I already know the answer to this (being, no, it has no effect) but I figure I'll just confirm.
Does activated charcoal filtering have any effect on the levels of these minerals? Or is that mainly for chlorine and whatno…
Wow... that's perfect! And at under 17 bucks, a steal... Thanks a lot, Sam! I appreciate it.
Steve,
Grab an empty water bottle out of your recycling, fill it up with tap water and send it off to wardlab.com. Request their "Household Mineral Test". It's $16.50 and gives you everything you need. I got the results via email 3 days after they…
I'm a fairly new resident of Lower Bucks County (Levittown, to be exact), and while I received the most recent Water Quality Report from our municipal authority, it was not nearly as detailed as I'd hoped, listing Alkalinity as ppm of CaCO3 only.
I…
I don't believe a stirplate is completely necessary, no. It's cool looking, fun to make, and DOES significantly increase the quantity of yeast developed in the wort, however, there's conjecture over whether the quantity of yeast is matched by that h…
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- At 6:55pm on April 28, 2010,
Sam Scott said… - Hey, congrat's on advancing to the NHC 2nd Round with your barleywine!!!
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