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@MmmBeer Where do you derive the 2.7L per kilo from ? Its pretty close to the 50% I was considering (amazing - worked it out to 2.666 -- that's really close, 50% of 24L / 4.5Kilos)). I was just guestimating it. @ Caramel Ox My Boiler holds over 30L. Its an old tea urn rescued and repaired from...

I have some questions about sparging. Depending on which item you read how do you determine the % of water for the initial mash ?. I am using the 'in the bag' method but thought to vary the sparge method a bit. The first mash I figured to use half (50% of total) the total volume of water...

Thanks for your information and assistance. I redid the tests using 1 drop at a time with no initial 0.6mL or initial drips. Tapwater , 0.82 on syringe, kit says 90ppm, water report says avg value 90.5 ppm. Very nice correlation. Tested Ashbeck water, and it was in the right area, but really...

Hi Richard Yes, its the same kit, same box. The instructions are different though. It has New on the sheet, says to add 0.6ml of reagent before dripping(step 4). The table values are the same. Any values below 300ppm are in brown, presumably not measurable ? I wonder if I would have better luck...

I'm just getting into water treatment foe an all grain beer. So I thought I'd try the methods recommended in the treatment post. Having purchased both the Kh and Ca Profi test kits I find that the Ca kit does not work. I wrote to the supplier : I have tried this kit with my local tapwater and...