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Nice writeup! I like the typical ranges for each salt. One thing I would like to see would be an example salt calculation for 20L of a few different styles so that I can see if I'm in the ballpark. I'm always insecure after using a calculator and find myself pouring a bunch of powders into the...

Thanks again guys. Ive found someone who will lend me a RO unit, and will use that for my water. I used the Brewers Friend water calculator to figure out the salts required to match Pilsner water. Im assuming RO water has zeros for all the minerals. Is there any problem with using chalk in the...

Thanks everyone. This is my first Pilsener, and I'm encouraged to see signs that I'm on the right track. I think I'll make the following changes. I think I'll change my bittering hop (60 min) to the equivalent IBUs of Magnum to smooth out the hop bitterness a bit. It shouldn't otherwise...

The original hop bill looks like this: Czech Saaz hops 39 g (60 min) Czech Saaz hops 47 g (30 min) Czech Saaz hops 24 g (10 min) Czech Saaz hops 24 g (0 min) I am using far less in overall quantities of hops, so its hard for me to imagine the use of Chinook as "extensive". But Saaz is a more...

Hello, I was going to brew a bohemian pilsner following this recipe. I ran into a problem; I really do not like pilsners. I dont like the hop profile to be more precise. The noble hops just do not do it for me. I already bought the grain, but decided to americanize the recipe. I want to give...

I recently rolled back from 10 to 7. 10 caused my internet to slow down drastically. I tried every update, driver, reset various winsock things, different network cards, researched forums, the lot. Rolling back restored my internet speed instantly. I am not going to try 10 again in a hurry. I...

Including the propane, I'm averaging about 60c a beer. I buy bulk hops and bulk base malts. I get the specialty malts at $5/kg from the LHBS