Water profile – Olde Town Mash Paddler's https://otmp.club Tue, 06 Jul 2021 20:40:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/otmp.club/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-OTMP-logo-tiny-web-site-title-alpha-background-1-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Water profile – Olde Town Mash Paddler's https://otmp.club 32 32 160100051 Water Chemistry – do you care? https://otmp.club/forums/topic/water-chemistry-do-you-care/ Tue, 06 Jul 2021 20:40:12 +0000 https://otmp.club/forums/topic/water-chemistry-do-you-care/ I am trying to control more of the details of my brewing. I am now moving into the area of Water chemistry in my brewing – I recently purchased a pH meter to attempt to be able to monitor and record the pH on my batches. But that is about as far as I have gone with tweaking water chemistry. I read in books about water profiles for different styles of beer. I was wondering what others in the club do about water.

Does anyone start off with distilled or RO water and then build a profile from there?

My tap water is pretty soft (TDS of 22 ppm with about 15 ppm of Sulfate) so I it seems like I am not that far from distilled water to begin with. I talked to the engineer at the water department and he sent me a years worth of sampling and the variability was very small.

I do treat my water with a camden tablet to remove chlorine.

I was wondering what others in the club do with water profiles and how much do you think it impacts your beer?

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