When preparing for a brew day I fill the HLT with the mash water and a spare FV with the sparge water. I then treat them both with the appropriate amount of campden, CRS, Calcium Chloride, Magnesium Sulphate, salt and gypsum.
It can be a bit difficult to get some of them to dissolve in cold water, but I do the treatment the night before the brew day and by morning there's no residue in the bottom. And, of course, it gets heated up to 77C or more and stirred before it's used anyway.
Is it OK to do it like this or should I be adding them at different stages? I know that the advice is usually to add the gypsum to the mash rather than to the liquor.
When to add what?
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Re: When to add what?
You could add the salts to the Malts before Mashing, the main place where they get used in in the mash reactions, or you could just treat the Volume of your Mash liquor then add the remainder of the salts to the copper later.
I've just been adding the full liquor volume of needed salts to the mash grist.
DWB (Dry Liquor Salts) is only added to the Mash prior to mashing where I work.
Read - http://www.brupaks.com/water%20treatment.htm "When Making a Full Mash Brew..."
I've just been adding the full liquor volume of needed salts to the mash grist.
DWB (Dry Liquor Salts) is only added to the Mash prior to mashing where I work.
Read - http://www.brupaks.com/water%20treatment.htm "When Making a Full Mash Brew..."
Re: When to add what?
Cheers matey. Just what I needed to know.