Magnesium Chloride

[hcolley]

I converted to Beersmith 4 recently and I have noticed that when I ask it to match a water profile it is suggesting magnesium chloride as a brewing salt addition. I never saw this in Beersmith 3 and I do not have magnesium chloride and haven't seen it commonly mentioned in water profiles before. I can delete it and balance things our using Epsom salt (MgSO4) but it is a bit of extra work. I tried deleting magnesium chloride from the Misc ingredients with success but the water profile tool continues to suggest magnesium chloride. Any hints or am I just stuck deleting it from the suggest salt additions?

 

[yeback]

@BeerSmith would it be possible to add an option in the water profile tool to replace magnesium chloride with Epsom salt in upcoming releases? In EU magnesium chloride is not very common and I have never seen it available in homebrew shops

 

[BeerSmith]

I have it on my bug list to add a checkbox to allow you to exclude it as it is not as common at the homebrew level.