water chemistry

So I am participating in a wort share contest with a local brewery and the wort pick-up is this weekend and I have a few questions. First, is there any way to store the wort safely to brew say a week or two from now? I want to do a NEIPA but I want it to be fresh and the judging isn't until...

I got hold of one of these water test kits from Sensafe, with their brewing water test set-up. Link below to my hands-on review. It was pretty cool how easy it was to use. I did have some glitches/crashes with the App on my Android phone, but once I stuck to the basics of the water test, I...

Guys I have been trying to get this recipe together for a Stone Milk Stout Clone but my pH keeps coming out close or below 5.0. How can I get more pH into the mash to help with conversions. Below is the recipe with mineral additions calced from BnW 5. My water in Chicago has the following...

I'm working on making a Kolsch and would like to get some advice on a proper water profile. This is my tap water profile: Ca: 20 Mg: 13 Na: 21 SO4: 9 Cl: 64 HCO3: 60 Ph: 8.2 I'm using Bru'n Water software to make my adjustments. I see there is a Cologne profile but I also see Martin...

I am happy to accept the short answer is no. It is always going to be interesting to see what you get and some information must be better than no information, but my question is not entirely flippant. I have been searching through all the water threads in here and I can find very little...

Hi, My water report shows a relatively stable PH variation between 7.73 - 8.29 (currently lying at 8.02) but my hardness is showing huge swings between 6.03-18.4 in German Degrees of Hardness. My latest reading was at the low end of that at 6.41°dH. Is this something I need to worry about...

Hey everyone, I was previously using local well water to brew with, and had some great results, but our well yield has dropped significantly since my last couple brews, so I've been using RO water (without any additions) with just OK results. I'm interested in building up my brew water from...

Hello everyone, I need some help. I am having off flavors in my pale beers, is like a plastic weir taste. I think that is chlorophenols, but I really dont know what the real cause is, beacause I use sodium metabilsufite( powder) in my water( even tried using 2xrecomended quantity). Recently I...

Hi All, I have been brewing since 2009 (some commercial, years ago, mostly at home). A long time reader of this forum but my first time logging in and posting anything. I couldn't find a thread that addressed these questions, but if you know of one please link it in your reply. Here goes...

I'm just starting to get into the chemistry of my brewing water. I received my Ward Labs report today. What do you guys think? pH 7.5 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm 370 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 0.62 Cations / Anions, me/L / 6.7 7.0 ppm Sodium, Na 11 Potassium, K 3...

I'm finally getting around to dialing in a few specifics with my homebrew and I'm wondering if someone could help me with my water profile. I've had conflicting ideas about my local water so I'm attaching the local water report. Any help on if I should be using it, what I need to add or how to...

My mother's inner hippy came out at some point and she bought a $200 kombucha kit from KombuchaKamp last year. She had never had kombucha nor has she ever a sustained a hobby very long. She decided that she didn't like how it taste so I have been gifted an old SCOBY and a bunch of other stuff...

I have got a problem with my water assay. My water source comes from a mixture of two rivers where the mineral content varies over the seasons. River 1 the alkalinity varies from 41 to 118 while river 2 varies from 25 to 39. The other minerals (Ca, Na, Mg, Cl and SO4) are also all over the...

Hi, HBT. Longtime lurker finally signed up for some advice and apologies in advance for what will probably be a wall of text. First some background info. I don't have an outdoor burner so my homebrew adventures are limited to partial mashes in a 5 gallon cooler with partial boils on the stove...