Water Calculator Update

[brian320fo]

Hi all,

I've just finished a major revision of my water calculator. It has a better algorithm and more information provided. It calculates water profiles for a given recipe and style. If you're interested my brewing water web site is:

Phantom Wing Brewing

Enjoy!
Cheers

 

[Fr8Dog]

Thanks for the link and the calculator. I will give it a try when I get my system setup.

 

[NewJersey]

What's the deal with OG going from 10-150?

 

[NewJersey]

I like how you can choose acid malt

 

[marc1]

Very slick! Fun to play with.
How does it determine the ions for the full volume if you only enter the mash volume? Am I missing a sparge volume somewhere?

It's very much a personal preference, but your defaults seem to be really heavy on sulfate, and on salts in general. The starting point for a dortmunder I put in was 144 each for sulfate and Chloride, which seems like it would be waaay to minerally. I think building in the ratio of the two in the calculations leads to odd recommendations on styles that really don't need much/any sulfate.

It also seems to target 100ppm Calcium minimum, where in my understanding, 100ppm calcium is getting to the upper bounds of what you want.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[brian320fo]

What's the deal with OG going from 10-150?

Those are the gravity points. 1.010 - 1.150. I have to put a limit somewhere or the calculations take too long. If you brew anything heavier than 1.150 let me know and I'll change the program.

 

[brian320fo]

Very slick! Fun to play with.
How does it determine the ions for the full volume if you only enter the mash volume? Am I missing a sparge volume somewhere?

It's very much a personal preference, but your defaults seem to be really heavy on sulfate, and on salts in general. The starting point for a dortmunder I put in was 144 each for sulfate and Chloride, which seems like it would be waaay to minerally. I think building in the ratio of the two in the calculations leads to odd recommendations on styles that really don't need much/any sulfate.

It also seems to target 100ppm Calcium minimum, where in my understanding, 100ppm calcium is getting to the upper bounds of what you want.

Thanks for sharing!

Dortmunders are very minerally beers. Suggested water profile is a minimum of 100 ppm Ca with an average around 125ppm. Also very high in sulfate. But everyone has there own preferences which is why I included the sliders. You can adjust the profiles as you wish and the calculator will keep all the ions balanced. I just updated the program to tend towards adding less minerals.

 

[brian320fo]

Very slick! Fun to play with.
How does it determine the ions for the full volume if you only enter the mash volume? Am I missing a sparge volume somewhere?

It's very much a personal preference, but your defaults seem to be really heavy on sulfate, and on salts in general. The starting point for a dortmunder I put in was 144 each for sulfate and Chloride, which seems like it would be waaay to minerally. I think building in the ratio of the two in the calculations leads to odd recommendations on styles that really don't need much/any sulfate.

It also seems to target 100ppm Calcium minimum, where in my understanding, 100ppm calcium is getting to the upper bounds of what you want.

Thanks for sharing!

Forgot to answer your first question. Sparge volume additions can be done in programs like BeerSmith. I didn't want to duplicate the capability. If you put this water profile into BeerSmtih it will calculate that for you.

 

[brian320fo]

Very slick! Fun to play with.
How does it determine the ions for the full volume if you only enter the mash volume? Am I missing a sparge volume somewhere?

It's very much a personal preference, but your defaults seem to be really heavy on sulfate, and on salts in general. The starting point for a dortmunder I put in was 144 each for sulfate and Chloride, which seems like it would be waaay to minerally. I think building in the ratio of the two in the calculations leads to odd recommendations on styles that really don't need much/any sulfate.

It also seems to target 100ppm Calcium minimum, where in my understanding, 100ppm calcium is getting to the upper bounds of what you want.

Thanks for sharing!

Sparge volume feature has been added. Thanks for the feedback.