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Offline Phil_M

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Re: BIAB Water Chemistry
« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2015, 05:44:20 pm »
Yep, the label on the package showed Weyermanns, as I requested.

The way I've got my water adjustment page setup, my tap water profile is loaded at the top. Then beneath that I have the dilution water profile set to distilled water, 100% dilution. It doesn't carry the nasty bicarbonate from my tap water into the "finished water profile," so I'm guessing everything is setup correctly.

Also, as a correction I used 8.75 gallons of water, not 8.25.

I could still be missing something/inputting something improperly.
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Offline Phil_M

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Re: BIAB Water Chemistry
« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2015, 05:48:08 pm »
Sorry for taking so long to update, work and school have been crazy…

Finally got to check the call on my pH meter today…it tested within tolerance. (±0.05 pH)

So, in the meantime I can't explain why the pH was so low compared to Bru'n water. Not sure when I'll brew my next batch, but when I do I'll focus on trying to hound out what went wrong.

What do you think I should do, try a different recipe and see if I get a similar result? Or perhaps try this one a second time to see if some random fluke occurred in this batch?
Corn is a fine adjunct in beer.

And don't buy stale beer.