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Pale ale. Fermented 4 weeks. Put in a pound of fresh wet hops. Removed fresh hops and allowed beer to sit in fermenter for another 2 weeks. Kegged beer tonight and found this. Hop bag was sanitized. Thoughts? Beer tastes ok. Smelled ok. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Emailed the city/county water treatment facility and asked for them. They were more than happy to provide the measurements I asked for. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I greatly appreciate the replies. I'm reading the primer now. Am I to assume that any additions, other than sauermalz, should be added to the wort and not the mash? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Recommendations on what beer would be good to brew with this water profile. Any general recommendations on additions to the water that should be made, ie. gypsum, calcium etc. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Looking for suggestions based on the following water profile. They sent these measurements in mg/l. Most tutorials and other threads with the same topic seem to be in ppm. Sodium 24.0 mg/L Sulfate 47.0 mg/L Chloride 17.0 mg/L Hardness as CaCo3 32.0 mg/L Alkalinity 26.0 mg/L Carbon Dioxide 5.0...

Thanks for the warning about the hot water and carboy. Definitely won't be doing that again in any situation. Anyone know if beer smith automatically corrects recipes for use of top up water?

I was using beersmith and had the idea of brewing a 10gallon batch (allgrain), and using 1 gallon of water as topup. My only intention on doing this was to give me a bit of headspace in my brew kettle. If using top up water with all grain is not a good idea, what would the reasons be?

I just wanted the water cold to help with cooling down the wort in preparation for pitching the yeast. But now that I think about it, i'll probably want to add the top up water after the siphon the wort off the trub/hopbreak material right?

Thanks for the advice guys. Down the drain it goes. Any need to worry about gallon jugs of bottled water going in as top up water?

I've expanded a bit in terms of my brewing operation and needed to add a secondary regulator body to my existing CO2 setup. I now have a Kegco Dual Gauge/Dual product regulator (like this) and I added a second regulator body (like this)between the Kegco and the CO2 tank. The single body...

So.....I think I may have wasted some time this evening. I had the bright idea that I would boil up some top up water a few days ahead of my brew day. This would allow me to cool this "clean" water and have it ready to top up my wort after my brew day this friday. So i boiled up 5 gallons of...

Also if still available, I'd like to pick up 2. Let me know on the status of kegs still available, as I may get more than 2.

Or any guitars? I'm currently considering selling some hobby gear to fund this. Just thought I'd check and see if you were into motorcycles or guitars.

Interested in a Honda CB500 cafe racer motorcycle?

Love this thread.