Water profile for London Pride

[fullclaret]

Hi,

I've made a few pride clones but still not quite hitting the mark. I've used the 'dry pale ale' profile in the past, can anyone recommend any changes? I've very hard water and use CRS to reduce carbonates, trick is to not make it too acidic so I check carbonate levels before and after treating. Before I started checking carbonates for each brew I used to take the water report as gospel. One brew I followed Graham's water treatment and the water pH was 4! Guess the levels vary quite a bit from the report...

This is my 'report' water profile:
Alkalinity as CaCO3=237, Hardness as CaCO3=293
Calcium=111, Magnesium=4.8, Sodium=38, Carbonate=142, Sulphate=70, Chloride=50

And this is the Dry Pale Ale profile that the table gives:
Calcium=190, Magnesium=15, Sodium=30, Carbonate=15, Sulphate=329.9, Chloride=177.2

Cheers,
Steve

[AnthonyUK]

I'm only guessing but I would say they are using Burtonisation. I would opt for something darker than a Pale Ale personally.

[fullclaret]

Thanks AnthonyUK, I'll try and tweak something in between bitter and 'Burtonised' and post the results later today.

[AnthonyUK]

I've just listened to the Brewing Networks podcast on London Pride cloning again and didn't hear them mention anything about water adjustments unfortunately.
It's well worth a listen if you haven't heard it before especially the 2nd one - 'The rebrew'.

[fullclaret]

thanks, I'll do that right now