Earthson
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I'm stepping up my game and trying to match water profiles. Going from my local (Edmonton, Alberta) water, and trying to match Dublin, Ireland. I used our local water treatment site's water breakdown and created a profile in Beersmith3. Then I used the water tab to select Edmonton, and matched to Dublin. I'm told to add the following:
First Question: How the hell am I supposed to measure out 0.60g of something? I have a kitchen scale that shows grams, but it isn't very accurate at that level. Thoughts?
Second Question: Is this really necessary? Am I going to notice that big a difference with such small numbers?
Third Question: I'm doing BIAB. But it is telling me to add some to the mash and some to the sparge. Can't I just add it all in with the mash?
Thanks a million./. Hope to hear from someone soon as I'm brewing in 12 hours.
- Calcium Chloride: 0.60g mash
- Calcium Chloride: 0.64g sparge
- Baking Soda: 0.82g mash
- Baking Soda: 0.88g sparge
- Chalk: 2.68g mash
- Chalk: 2.86g sparge
First Question: How the hell am I supposed to measure out 0.60g of something? I have a kitchen scale that shows grams, but it isn't very accurate at that level. Thoughts?
Second Question: Is this really necessary? Am I going to notice that big a difference with such small numbers?
Third Question: I'm doing BIAB. But it is telling me to add some to the mash and some to the sparge. Can't I just add it all in with the mash?
Thanks a million./. Hope to hear from someone soon as I'm brewing in 12 hours.