nyer
Well-Known Member
I am getting ready to do a rye ipa using 100 percent distilled water. This my first time using the brewers friend water calculator. I picked the light colored and hoppy water profile and it looks like it wants 7 grams of gypsum, 4.3 of Epsom salt, and 4 of calcium chloride. It says my mash ph will be 5.4 without doing anything else. Does this sound correct? I also input a lager recipe and in that one it didn't want me to do any acid additions either and it came out at a mash of 5.4. I was assuming I would have to do some type of acid additions but it appears that I don't need to. I guess that is making me question whether I did something wrong.