Hello everyone, I'm in a bit of a pickle. Recently Ive been trying to narrow down all the issues with my brews and one of the biggest ones that I recently realized is water. I come from Lithuania and we have REALLY hard water. My tap water is very heavy with hco3 being in the 300mg/l . The softest one from the store I could find was Neptunas with these specs:
Ca2+: 41mg/l
Mg2+: 7mg/l
Na+: 2,4mg/l
K+:0.9ml/l
HCO3–:154mg/l
Cl–: 5mg/l
SO42–:6,2mg/l
SiO2: 29mg/l
ph: 7,8
I havent had much of a problem until recently because Ive been brewing only baltic porters and our traditional farmhouse ales which required harder water. but recently I thought about making a few light lagers for summer and all of them had issues with flavour. I read that 5.2 ph stabiliser also binds and reduces hco3 and would be usefull in my situation. what do you recommed? am I stuck with dark beers or is there a solution
Ca2+: 41mg/l
Mg2+: 7mg/l
Na+: 2,4mg/l
K+:0.9ml/l
HCO3–:154mg/l
Cl–: 5mg/l
SO42–:6,2mg/l
SiO2: 29mg/l
ph: 7,8
I havent had much of a problem until recently because Ive been brewing only baltic porters and our traditional farmhouse ales which required harder water. but recently I thought about making a few light lagers for summer and all of them had issues with flavour. I read that 5.2 ph stabiliser also binds and reduces hco3 and would be usefull in my situation. what do you recommed? am I stuck with dark beers or is there a solution