philm63
Grandmaster Brewer
Ok so I've moved from really nice soft water to really not so nice not so soft water (Atlanta, GA to Columbus, OH) and I'm facing a huge expenditure of installing an RO system (Wife wants whole-house if we're gonna do this) BUT... I want to get brewing in our new house NOW!!
LHBS guy tells me to just use spring water which would work fine, I'm sure, but I'm that guy that measures and adjusts everything during every step of the brew day and if I don't have some base numbers to go by, I'm at the mercy of that particular batch of spring water.
I can control the pH, at least, as I do have a nice meter and 10% phosphoric so I can get my sparge water down to where I want it, but the salts! How do I know how much of this or that to add if I want a specific number for my calcium and such?
LHBS guy tells me to just use spring water which would work fine, I'm sure, but I'm that guy that measures and adjusts everything during every step of the brew day and if I don't have some base numbers to go by, I'm at the mercy of that particular batch of spring water.
I can control the pH, at least, as I do have a nice meter and 10% phosphoric so I can get my sparge water down to where I want it, but the salts! How do I know how much of this or that to add if I want a specific number for my calcium and such?