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    Ph water correction

    Hi, I am from Arica Chile, my water is very hard and their Ph is 6.8 , i am using phosphoric acid to decrease the pH but it doesn't make sense the quantity i am using, in 60lt of water to decrease from 6.8 to 5.2 i added 18ml of phosphoric acid at 85% , it looks too much for me or its ok? I was...
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    Density PROBLEMS

    Well, basicly i am using kind of the same equipment but with 120 liters vats , of course the power of fire is huge. I was thinking the same, that maybe i am not mixing properly the pre boil must. The samples are coming from the bottom and from the middle of the vat. thank you very much
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    Density PROBLEMS

    I am using hydrometer , and i am correcting the reading with temperature, and i was taking samples a different time, but still the same. I was doing two more batches and exactly the same, i can't understand, and it just happen with my 100lts batch, because with 20lts batch everything is perfect...
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    Density PROBLEMS

    I know, but actually i am taking the density right after whirlpool , after cooling and in the ferment tank , and all of them are getting very low , around 1.035, the thing that make me very worry, is that pre boiling is around 1.050, so how can be so different?, 0.015 points under? i am very...
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    Density PROBLEMS

    I know its impossible , but i don't know why before boiling i am getting 1.053 of density and after boiling i am getting 1.035, how is this possible? i was trying o many ways of sampling, but all the time the same, this is happening in my 100lts batch, in my 20lts batch everything is fine...
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