Jim's Beer Kit

Well done PeeBee. I hope you have survived the bad weather. Here we awoke to total calm after a damp night, but the wind is increasing as the day advances. ... I suspect the "well done" is for me acting like an a***, but taking the flak resulting from it on the chin instead of trying to defensive? ...

I'm not sure what that means, because I don't care that much about water, remember? ... What it meant was: I messed up my "analysis" of your water (by a fly's fart of an error but because we're talking water with little in it anyway, it magnified greatly) which I'd banded about as a key proof (wasn...

Hello Paul, you bumped up the chloride, I just made a minor alteration to sodium to make a balance on Graham's calculator. ... Flippin' rubbish. Go back to the sixth post an' it says Cl 10. ... Oh aye. Bums and donkey poo. I'm going home. An' what's "Tryfoyl" about ... Someone stating, in indelible...

IPA wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 06, 2024 5:27 pm

PeeBee wrote

And because of there numbers you can

Never mind about your spreadsheet prowess could you please get your grammar correct !!!!

What you about?

I nefer went t'grammer school, so you get "secondary modern" an' you kan like it or lump it.

Okay?

Ah, blast! The illustrations I've posted clearly show the difference between my "invalid" water analysis and Eric's "modified" (and valid!) analysis is all of eight milligrams per litre (of chloride, much less of sodium). Or, eight "Parts-per-million", but that just makes it sound worse. The hazards...

... The bit I'm interested in, that is, the beer. I find water chemistry beyond what I need know as a brewer - surprisingly little, thanks to other people's efforts - dry, ironically. There's no such thing as a 'perfect water profile'. Just a range within which a given beer style works 'because'. ....

With Eric's "edits": Defuddler Collage (snip-2).jpg That's better! Fits with Eric's "edits" to Sodium and Chloride now. I don't think Eric purposely made those edits to besmirch me, only overlooked he had made them? Note: "Alkalinity" 12.84mg/L as CaCO3, or, 7.7mg/L as CO3. (The "as CO3" was especia...

Eric wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 04, 2024 8:31 pm

It is a very Valid Profile. ...

Hang on!

You've bumped the bumped the Sodium up (slightly) and chopped the Chloride!

I'm "all ears". What have I done to deserve that?

Conclusion: That water analysis IS INVALID! On your self written spreadsheet, I can write a spreadsheet that proves the sky is green with purple spots but would it be correct? Anyways who cares if the waters right wrong or upside down it makes beer that the brewer enjoys supping,aint that the most ...

Let's show you why I think that water report not valid. I should first explain, I can't keep this stuff in my head long, so I put the knowledge into spreadsheets, which I'm pretty good at doing. Because I might not remember why I did something, the spreadsheets are full of error-checks. The most not...

But you're not providing any evidence that it does actually work. You are only saying it works and expect people to go along with it. You want people to also believe there's only two types of American, those out to fleece people and w******. You publish an impossible water profile. You have a trust ...

... My water is considered ‘soft’ by most people, including me: Ca 6.1 Mg 1.4 Na 3.8 SO4 3.5 Cl 10.9 Alkalinity (CaCO3) 13 Not me! It's positively "Hard" compared to the last person I spoke with (Outer Hebrides). But I'll guess you're somewhere down the Western UK, inland 'cos there's not much evid...

Primarily because it works well enough to control pH in a malted barley mash. There’s nothing to be fixed. No superior alternatives. Just beliefs and contrarians. ... You'll have to excuse me. I get very ratty with people insisting others must use a bad idea because that's what they use (with no sa...

But why put something in the water described as precipitated chalk? Why ignore someone like Kai Troester of "Braukaiser.com", a German , who has a strong liking for "chalk", yet says only half of it can dissolve. Why use "chalk" when there are things, certainly more reliable things, readily availabl...

This is a follow-on of my "Water Defuddler" project, as started off here . But I wanted a less cryptic title and a "clean slate" to document progress on this calculator. It should perhaps be entitled "Treating Water with a Low Alkalinity for Brewing" as there's a "sticky" one in this section ("Brewi...