Will you water experts please chime in and give me the basics on this report. It is time to figure out water. Thanks in advance.
Turbidity 9.8 NTU
Calcium, Total 15.6 mg/L
Copper, Total <0.005 mg/L
Magnesium, Total 0.554 mg/L
Manganese, Total 0.008 mg/L
Alkalinity 59.6 mg/L
Hardness, total 41.2 mg/L
Specific Conductance 111 mg/L
Total Dissolved Solids 64.1 mg/L
Lead, Total <0.001 mg/L
Fluoride 0.65 mg/L
Phosphorus, Total <0.10 mg/L
[quote=“disco”]Will you water experts please chime in and give me the basics on this report. It is time to figure out water. Thanks in advance.
Turbidity 9.8 NTU
Calcium, Total 15.6 mg/L
Copper, Total <0.005 mg/L
Magnesium, Total 0.554 mg/L
Manganese, Total 0.008 mg/L
Alkalinity 59.6 mg/L
Hardness, total 41.2 mg/L
Specific Conductance 111 mg/L
Total Dissolved Solids 64.1 mg/L
Lead, Total <0.001 mg/L
Fluoride 0.65 mg/L
Phosphorus, Total <0.10 mg/L[/quote]
If you don’t have Bru’nwater yet, get it. https://sites.google.com/site/brunwater/
If you’re anything like me it will scare the hell out of you when you open it the first time. Read the help, plug in your water info and keep looking at it/reading the directions again and again. It’s a great tool that I’m just beginning to understand. You’ll need a scale that reads down to 1/10th of a gram to make water adjustments.
My 2 cents…they say you can make good beer without adjusting your water and great beer by doing so. I’m OK with making good beer and don’t think any of my friends and family have the palate of a BJCP judge but why not make the best beer I can if it’s not that difficult. I have yet to taste a beer that I made with water corrections. So I’ll see in a week or so after my red ale get’s kegged if it made a difference that I can recognize.
[quote=“dannyboy58”]
If you’re anything like me it will scare the hell out of you when you open it the first time. Read the help, plug in your water info and keep looking at it/reading the directions again and again. It’s a great tool that I’m just beginning to understand. You’ll need a scale that reads down to 1/10th of a gram to make water adjustments.
My 2 cents…they say you can make good beer without adjusting your water and great beer by doing so. I’m OK with making good beer and don’t think any of my friends and family have the palate of a BJCP judge but why not make the best beer I can if it’s not that difficult. I have yet to taste a beer that I made with water corrections. So I’ll see in a week or so after my red ale get’s kegged if it made a difference that I can recognize.[/quote]
I too was really intimidated when first trying Bru’nwater. But I brew with RO water and was “wingin it” with adding some sea salt and gypsum to each batch and probably too much of both. Getting the water chemistry right was sort of the final frontier for me to get a handle on.
I have probably brewed 6 or 7 batches with careful water additions to style and I am just now starting to tap those kegs. I had a pretty deep backlog of beers from before I was doing this. I have an English Dark Mild that is the second time I have brewed it and it is the cleanest tasting beer I have ever made. My neighbor tasted it yesterday and literally went “WOW” and he drinks and likes all my beer. I have a Dunkel that has only been lagering a week, but I could not resist pulling a small glass, purely for research and clarity purposes :cheers: . After only a week, clear, clean tasting and delicious. I am very happy that I have taken the time to learn how to make these adjustments.
nothing to do with your report.
WSMFP!
hitting any of the spring tour?
[quote=“disco”]Will you water experts please chime in and give me the basics on this report. It is time to figure out water. Thanks in advance.
Turbidity 9.8 NTU
Calcium, Total 15.6 mg/L
Copper, Total <0.005 mg/L
Magnesium, Total 0.554 mg/L
Manganese, Total 0.008 mg/L
Alkalinity 59.6 mg/L
Hardness, total 41.2 mg/L
Specific Conductance 111 mg/L
Total Dissolved Solids 64.1 mg/L
Lead, Total <0.001 mg/L
Fluoride 0.65 mg/L
Phosphorus, Total <0.10 mg/L[/quote]
You’re missing some key constituents…sulfate, for one.
Yep, as Denny says, the report is missing several key constituents. However given that the hardness and alkalinity are fairly low, I’m betting that those missing constituents are not very high. More than likely, this is a good brewing water.
Do find out what the sodium, sulfate, and chloride are in this water. They are key to flavor impacts in the beer. If the water company doesn’t have that info, send off a sample for testing.
Thanks for feedback. We will get the other info. We have been making really good beer for a few years. 80+ batches. Ready to learn something new. We have been fooling around with bruin water and it is tough.
Muddy
I’m going to the two Township shows. Usually only catch a few WSP shows a year. Saw a ton in mid/late 90’s during college. Two kiddos makes going on tour tough. Lets meet up for a beer if you are coming to Cola.
Only able to do night two of Columbia. And was trying to do night two of alt. but pretty sure my chest freezer just died and I will need to purchase another one. Sad times.
Are you from south Carolina?
Chanson myself.
