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Today at 6:26 PM #1 Hello fellow brewers I currently have a brew in the fermenter which has taken almost twice as long to reach FG (after lag period) than it should. I'm hoping someone here might know why. Has any one else had a similar experience? Here is my recipe. I used 1 packet of...

Hello fellow brewers I have been experimenting with water profiles in an attempt to find my most preferred profiles for each of the styles I brew. I tend to keep Ca low (50-60 ppm) but vary Mg and Na. I put more emphasis on the SO4/Cl2 ratio as opposed to their levels. My starting water...

I'm hoping someone here may be able to help me with a puzzle that I have been grappling with. My local drinking water supply is soft: (Ca:15/ Mg:1/ Na:4/ So4:8/ Cl2:6) No need for RO, I use this water exclusively for my brewing and add salts to adjust to target. The average total chlorine is...

4 years ago my wife's brother gave me a basic extract brewing kit for Christmas. I loved it. The first brew was (in retrospect) terrible. But... I loved it. I kept a record of this brew, as with the many since. I wrote my own brewing calculators, built ispindels, studied water profiles and kept...