my water treatment

[rossi74]

hi all
ive just worked out my water treatment

and was wandering if all the additions went into the mash?
the total volume of water is in the HLT treated with the crs

thanks in advance

kyle

[gnutz2]

Your supposed to mix the salts in with your grist because the salts wont dissolve very well in water, to be honest i never noticed a difference because my mash gets a good mix with a drill.

BUT, you are over treating the beer with salts, i assume your making ~25l of beer so you only need to treat the grist for 25l not 35 but keep the CRS addition for 35l.

Does that make sense, i'm not very good at explaining these things

[rossi74]

fantastic. so i can use the crs to treat the total water volume and then adjust to 25 l to workout the rest.

cheers kyle

[gnutz2]

If your making a 25l batch of beer then yes that's exacty it.

[dave.wilton]

I was under the impression that for salts you should actually treat your pre boil volume (if not treating all the liquor as one). So usually I treat the mash, let's say 12L, adding the salts to the grist. Then you need to treat the boil volume (not the final volume as suggested) by subtracting mash from pre boil in my case it might be 27-12 = 15L of boil volume to treat, since 12L of the boil has already been treated. This is what it says on the brewpacks site anyway

[EccentricDyslexic]

I treat all of my water in one go. 45l in the HLT usually needs 30mls of CRS, 13g of Gypsum, 2g of Calcium Chloride and 2g of Salt. I stir it all in with a campden tablet as the HLT heats up, it dissolves no problem.

Steve

[gnutz2]

I was told on this forum to treat total liquor with crs but only the final volume with salts, can't remember who it was.

I suppose adding the salts to the grist is to take away the possibility of any salts being left in the hlt.

[rossi74]

Ok so now I'm confused . Can anyone clear this up for me. Do I treat all my water With all the salts, batch size volume, boil volume or treat the mash water and the sparge water separately.

Please HELP

Cheers kyle

[EccentricDyslexic]

Do either. Its personal preferance, whats easiest for you.

Steve

[john luc]

You do the process in 2 steps,first is to collect all the water needed for brewing into your HLT,and treat it with CRS to adjust its calcium carbonate to suit the beer style you are about to make. You then put some of your salts into the cold mash grains and keep some to put into your boil kettle. Calcium is needed to help the mash process and alot of will not transfer to the kettle,it will stay in the grains. You need calcium in the boil process so that is why you hold back some .