I'm new to the whole modifying water deal. I am trying to wrap my head around everything. Here in slc, Ut we have near perfect water for darker beers. Lighter beers on the other hand, the water is too hard and causes cloudy high acid mashes which also clouds my finished product.
I just finished reading over this http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/08/24/brewing-water-hard-or-soft/ and in it it states that you can pre-boil the water and drop the bicarbonate levels. Does doing so cause anything else to drop out? How does carbon filtering affect these levels?
Ideally I would love to hear nothing but the bicarbonate levels change. I am trying to avoid having to add lots of minerals back into the water since everything but the bicarbonate is perfect. Any thoughts or reading info would be great. And thanks in advance.
I just finished reading over this http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/08/24/brewing-water-hard-or-soft/ and in it it states that you can pre-boil the water and drop the bicarbonate levels. Does doing so cause anything else to drop out? How does carbon filtering affect these levels?
Ideally I would love to hear nothing but the bicarbonate levels change. I am trying to avoid having to add lots of minerals back into the water since everything but the bicarbonate is perfect. Any thoughts or reading info would be great. And thanks in advance.