{"id":5900,"date":"2016-04-29T11:43:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2016-04-29T11:43:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:43:34","slug":"why-you-should-use-neutral-water-for-extract-brewing-beer-brewing-quick-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/29\/why-you-should-use-neutral-water-for-extract-brewing-beer-brewing-quick-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Use Neutral Water for Extract Brewing &#8211; Beer Brewing Quick Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"beersmith\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/29\/why-you-should-use-neutral-water-for-extract-brewing-beer-brewing-quick-tip\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5892\" src=\"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tips200.png\" alt=\"Tips200\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tips200.png 200w, https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tips200-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tips200-144x144.png 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>While water chemistry and adjustments are very important for all grain brewers when mashing grains, extract beer brewers may get their best results using neutral (distilled, deionized) water instead since the liquid malt was already made with the proper water additives before it was concentrated.<\/p>\n<p>BeerSmith Quick Brewing and Software tips are some short 1-3 minute video clips I&#8217;ve put together for brewers. For more clips visit my blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\">BeerSmith.com\/Blog <\/a>or subscribe to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/mrbeersmith\">Youtube Channel: MrBeerSmith.<\/a> You might also <a href=\"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\/subscribe\">enjoy my newslettter<\/a> which has more detailed weekly articles on brewing.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xxgdiTGpxUg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThanks for joining me on the <a href=\"https:\/\/beersmith.com\/blog\">BeerSmith Home Brewing Blog<\/a>. 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Also check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/beersmith.com\/dvd\">How to Brew Video series<\/a> I shot with John Palmer if you want to learn more about all grain brewing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet While water chemistry and adjustments are very important for all grain brewers when mashing grains, extract beer brewers may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[885,6,438],"tags":[825,12,478,15,108,14,44,25,139],"class_list":["post-5900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-tips","category-homebrewing","category-videos-2","tag-homebrewing","tag-brewing","tag-chemistry","tag-extract","tag-homebrew","tag-malt","tag-malt-extract","tag-mash","tag-water"],"spectra_custom_meta":{"_edit_lock":["1474673587:2"],"_edit_last":["2"],"_thumbnail_id":["5891"],"thesis_thumb_width":["66"],"thesis_thumb_height":["66"],"_aioseop_keywords":["water, chemistry, extract, brewing, malt, mash, homebrew, homebrewing, malt extract"],"_aioseop_description":["While water chemistry and adjustments are very important for all grain brewers when mashing grains, extract beer brewers may get their best results using neutral (distilled, deionized) water instead since the liquid malt was already made with the proper water additives before it was concentrated."],"_aioseop_title":["Why You Should Use Neutral Water for Extract Brewing - 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