soft water

[BrewCat]

My well water is quite soft so for years had no problems clean styles or any styles for that matter. Started playing with adjustments a few years ago to just see where it went. Often I'll pick a simple profile offered by the recipe software but lately I've been looking for advice for particular styles on the internet. What do you all do?

 

[BOB357]

Whatever works for you. Many brewers produce good beer with minimal water adjustments, often only CaCl and/or CaSO4. Some create their own profiles and others use the profiles that come with BeerSmith. You do want to avoid profiles for geographic locations though. It's seldom that a brewery uses their local water as is. The profiles included with BeerSmith work well, including the color/body ones.

My water has way too much sodium to brew with, so I start out with RO. I've entered profiles for the styles I brew most often and use the BeerSmith profiles for everything else.

 

[BrewCat]

Ill look into saving the profiles I create. I agree less is more just trying to find the sweet spot