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Contents:
  Water Chem Help ("LANCE HARBISON")
  Fermenter Cooling ("LANCE HARBISON")


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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:56:22 -0500
From: "LANCE HARBISON" <harbison65 at verizon.net>
Subject: Water Chem Help

I just got my local water report:
Ca - 28 ppm, Mg - 7 ppm, SO4 - 48 ppm, Cl - 44, Na - 29, Hardness (ppm 
CaCO3) - 99, Alkalinity (ppm CaCO3) - 49.  Using the "How to Brew" nomograph 
the resulting base malt pH is 5.74.

My next beer will be an Altbier.  I am thinking of adding 1/4 gr/gallon of 
calcium-carbonate which would appear to increase my calcium level to about 
60 ppm and the alkalinity to about 90 and the base pH to 5.76.  I have not 
adjusted water before and am wondering if I have done it right, and is there 
really any point in messing around with the chemistry?

Lance Harbison
Pittsburgh 




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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:44:02 -0500
From: "LANCE HARBISON" <harbison65 at verizon.net>
Subject: Fermenter Cooling

I had the bright(?) idea today of positioning an ice bath below my conical. 
If my post boil cooling did not achieve the optimum pitching temp I may pump 
the wort through a small coil immersed in an ice bath.  The return to the 
top of the conical would be so as to not introduce agitation.  Ultimately I 
could possibly maintain temperature for a couple of days while fermentation 
occurs.  Is there any potential to this hair-brained scheme?

Lance Harbison
Pittsburgh 




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