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Mash pH – Hard Water Treatment for Brewing Beer

by Brad Smith on October 5, 2008 · 13 comments

For many years I never worried about balancing pH or even what my water profile was when brewing. After all, the beer was fine and most of the time I was brewing with extract, so pH did not matter much. However once I started all grain brewing, the water I brewed with suddenly started to [...]

Brewing Water – Hard or Soft?

by Brad Smith on August 24, 2008 · 18 comments

Brewing water plays a very important role in the flavor of your homebrewed beer. Knowing the character of your local water source as well as how to adjust it to improve your beer is a critical skill, particularly for more advanced brewers. Water impacts beer in three ways. Water ions are critical in the mashing [...]