Beer stone remover

[MashBag]

Thanks chaps.

Wasn't unpleasant, still drinkable. Just "OK" . Unpleasent gets fed to the staff

According to anglian water calcium is 3 ppm, but will double check.

[MashBag]

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[guypettigrew]

You've got more arsenic than calcium!!!

Something's very wrong there.

Guy

[clarets7]

Mashbag, I've looked at many water reports over the years and that is just not right. Are you on a spring water supply or something strange? My water is very soft and low alkalinity yet still has 13mgCa/L. What water area are you in?

[Eric]

The arsenic is in microgrammes per litre, but from that table it has 20 times more chlorine than calcium and I would have thought that would be palatably undrinkable. If I read that correctly the benzene content is many times above a carcinogenic level. There is something radically wrong with that table.

Can you send a link to that table.

[Eric]

Assuming alkalinity was 120 mg/l as CaCO3 and target was 20 mg/l as CaCO3, then desired reduction would be 100 mg/l.
30 litres multiplied by 100 mg/l equals 3000 mg.

3000 mg divided by 183 mg/ml equals 19.4 ml. Correct.

Hi Eric

How do you get to 19.4ml of AMS?

Guy

Yes Guy, typing in low light hit the 9 above the 6 on the keypad. 3000/183 = 16.4.

[MashBag]

The arsenic is in microgrammes per litre, but from that table it has 20 times more chlorine than calcium and I would have thought that would be palatably undrinkable. If I read that correctly the benzene content is many times above a carcinogenic level. There is something radically wrong with that table.

Can you send a link to that table.

It is a pity I cannot upload it as a PDF ...ADMIN !!!!

http://waterquality.anglianwater.com/map.aspx and type in PE12 7LR.

Just below postocde you will see "I want a full Drinking Water Quality Report for this area"

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[guypettigrew]

Ah, mystery solved!

Your calcium is 124ppm. The '3' you saw is the number of samples taken.

The report's not easy to read, though. But perhaps it looks better on your PC than mine. I have to keep sliding it left to right and back again.

Guy

[Eric]

Using Graham's "liquor Treatment Calculator" from this Forum for 30 litres of water with average figures from the Anglian Water site and his Burton Pale Ale profile that has a 130ppm level of calcium, the problem is obvious.

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Interesting the beer tasted of soft water.

[Eric]

Just in case you are curious about the profile used for the brew, I've again used Graham's program to show what those additions created.

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[MashBag]

That sliding right and left did make it hard to read.

Thanks for spotting the problem.

I am a little annoyed at myself a) for the misread and b) for changing 2 things in one go. Making it harder to spot what happened.

Brewing next week. Will recalc my DWB.

Thanks chaps.

[Eric]

That sliding right and left did make it hard to read.

Thanks for spotting the problem.

I am a little annoyed at myself a) for the misread and b) for changing 2 things in one go. Making it harder to spot what happened.

Brewing next week. Will recalc my DWB.

Thanks chaps.

you've
Well, the clue is in Clarets7's post, you don't become competent assimilator of data from water quality reports without a bit of practice.

Mashbag, I've looked at many water reports over the years and that is just not right. Are you on a spring water supply or something strange? My water is very soft and low alkalinity yet still has 13mgCa/L. What water area are you in?

I'd not be too concerned about changing more than one thing at a time. There isn't one perfect beer, but a good pale beer demands low alkalinity water. You could brew without any salt additions to the mash, but a truly serious attempt would involve checking your water's alkalinity after acid treatment and measuring mash and wort pH. Meanwhile I'd suggest you treat your brewing liquor's alkalinity with CRS to 20ppm CaCO3 or slightly less and throw a teaspoon of DWB into the boiler to improve hot and cold break as well as yeast flocculation.

[MashBag]

That is good advice Eric. Thank you.

I will let you know how it's goes.

[MashBag]

Had anyone got one of these?

Thoughts?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394205070468 ... media=COPY

No! Both of mine are cream coloured and cost less.

After much delay (postage), cream coloured and costing less arrived. Calibration done. Supply water 280. Thanks.

Off to make some AMS water for the iron next!

[Eric]

After much delay (postage), cream coloured and costing less arrived. Calibration done. Supply water 280. Thanks.

Off to make some AMS water for the iron next!

280? What does that represent?

It would appear you have a belief that adding AMS to hard water will make it soft and therefore suitable for use in a steam iron. It doesn't