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Beer Brewing Water with John Palmer – BeerSmith Podcast #60

by Brad Smith on May 28, 2013 · 2 comments

This week my guest is John Palmer. John joins us to discuss brewing water and pH control for mashing in beer brewing. He explains why understanding your brewing water and controlling your mash pH is very important as well as describes how to calculate residual alkalinity for your local water source. Download the MP3 File […]

Mash pH – Hard Water Treatment for Brewing Beer

by Brad Smith on October 5, 2008 · 44 comments

For many years I never worried about balancing pH or even what my water profile was when brewing. After all, the beer was fine and most of the time I was brewing with extract, so pH did not matter much. However once I started all grain brewing, the water I brewed with suddenly started to […]

Brewing Water – Hard or Soft?

by Brad Smith on August 24, 2008 · 48 comments

Brewing water plays a very important role in the flavor of your homebrewed beer. Knowing the character of your local water source as well as how to adjust it to improve your beer is a critical skill, particularly for more advanced brewers. Water impacts beer in three ways. Water ions are critical in the mashing […]

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