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I am in! Thanks!

I used the RO for sanitizing water, and the water for priming sugar as well, with a half a campden tablet crushed in as I was so worried about it! The water from my RO water cooler still does not taste clear though, so I am guessing that is it. SUPER frustrating. Thanks for the quick reply.

oh extra details- 5 gallon batches (3.5 gallon boil), with starters, extract with steeping grains. one was in primary for 3 weeks then bottled, one was in primary for 3 weeks then lagering for 2 weeks in the garage. I have been successful in the past using the same set up with store bought water.

Hello! So awhile back I accidentally forgot that my tap water is super chlorinated and I brewed two batches with it. It tasted nasty when I went to bottle, but I bottled it anyway and left it for a few months, even though I hear that the chlorine taste will not fade. Well, everyone was right...

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I use a free photoshop type program called "gimp". It is fairly easy to use and there are a ton of tutorials out there as well. I don't have the money to pay for photoshop! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

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+5, 27,495. this stuff is so good.

Just really chemical-like. Not necessarily the band-aid I have heard about, just tasted chemical. Our tap water usually has a bit of that taste which I why I always brew with RO water. I just forgot this time. The taste was magnified quite a bit in both beers that I brewed that day. Different...

Posting to subscribe - looking for a fridge or freezer now... Looks like a great build and the pictures make it easy. Thank you!

Well, bottled today. I tasted it and it was terrible. I realized that I forgot to use RO or bottled water with this batch, i tried just using the tap water. our tap water up here is super chlorinated, and i did not use a campden tablet (still new at this). I bottled it anyway and i will check...

I'm in!:mug:

Haha - Just trying to learn as much as I can from the brewers who have been doing this for awhile! I think I will go with the kolsch recipe and tone down the hops to around 20ish IBUs, and take your advice to save a few bottles for when I can make the same recipe with the proper yeast. Thanks...

mmb, as a member with over 20,000 posts, I will take your advice :) According to the brewers friend recipe calculator this recipe with the cream yeast will put me at almost 6% and 26 IBU's. Would you scale it back a bit to keep it within style guidelines? As I am still new to this, I am trying...

Hello, I planned on doing a nice light beer for summer and wanted to test out the Kolsch yeast. However, the brewstore was out of it and sent me WLP080 cream ale yeast instead. (I live in northern Canada and cannot go to a LHBS). This is the recipe I was going to do, something very simple...