I was using distilled water in the past, but I have recently been mixing distilled and house water recently. Last 2 brews were with house water. One is still in the fermenter and the other is a Baltic porter which turned out pretty good imo!.. guess I'll have to go back to distilled water and...
The Brewers friend doesn't tell u what u need to add. Just what happens to the numbers when u add ingredients to it. Thanks for the sulfate clarification 👍.
Hello all,
I sent a water sample to ward labs and got the results back the other day, tried messing with the adjustments to get the profile right on brewers friend but can't seem to get it right. Can someone help me understand how to adjust properly. Here is the results.
Ph 8.0
Sodium.na. 45...
So I kegged it a week ago. And took a hydrometer reading of it also. At 1.014. So I ended up with a 8.2% abv .. and it tastes pretty darn good . Took some samples to a beer club meeting and gave some out and they all thought it was pretty good too. Thanks for all the help.