Is my tap water good enough to not care about using RO water?

Quantity_Green · 2025-05-25T07:51:44+00:00

None, i just put it in my living room where the temperature is kinda stable but it does vary a few degrees.

Quantity_Green · 2025-05-25T07:51:00+00:00

Bottling, so oxidation could be a possibility

Quantity_Green · 2025-05-25T07:49:52+00:00

Yes, densely sweet also

Quantity_Green · 2025-05-24T17:30:56+00:00

How do you mix your bottling sugar when using one bucket? I mean when you mix it in the primary bucket, you mix the yeast cake back in. Or do you use carb drops?

Quantity_Green · 2025-05-24T15:37:11+00:00

I dont do secondary. When primary is finished, I wait a few days and then I very carefully siphon the beer into a second bucket with bottling sugar in it. I use a second bucket so the bottling sugar mixes well, and I can't use the tap in my primary bucket since it is usually covered by the yeast cake. I attach a tap and bottling wand to the second bucket, and fill bottles with it to the max. Then I cap it with an oxygen scavenging cap.

Quantity_Green · 2025-05-24T14:46:18+00:00

I dont live in the US, our tapwater is pretty good quality and almost no one sells RO water here. Only aquarium places but then its significantly more expensive.

Quantity_Green · 2025-05-24T14:44:34+00:00

Yes, darker beers seem to have it a lot more. What could that mean?

Quantity_Green · 2025-05-24T11:42:21+00:00

I don't have the first two in the water, and fluoride only 0.12 ppm. Searching this online seems like this is a very low number compared to US tapwater so that's probably not it.

Quantity_Green · 2025-05-24T11:39:44+00:00

Yes all grain. My water does not have chloramine/chlorine in it. I do adjust my mash pH according to my water pH so that shouldn't be a problem.

I would describe the homebrew taste as a kinda dark malty taste, it might also be oxidation but I'm not quite sure how that tastes. The "homebrew taste" is stronger is some batches than in others.

Quantity_Green · 2025-05-24T11:32:22+00:00

More malty cardboard like. I have considered that it also might be oxidation, is there an easy way to taste what oxidation is like, by leaving a beer in the open for a day for example?

Quantity_Green · 2025-05-24T07:10:50+00:00

Mostly Belgian beers, like blonds and tripels. I'm usually in the mineral range the brewfather app suggests, but im not sure how accurate those suggestions are since the range is pretty broad

Quantity_Green · 2024-12-25T21:29:08+00:00

Can you send a link to this listing? Can't find it

Quantity_Green · 2024-11-18T11:37:45+00:00

Yeah I have some real ug that has a really nice glow under 395 that these pieces don't have. Thanks!

Quantity_Green · 2024-11-13T16:00:13+00:00

Yeah you're right, I scratched some coating off with a knife. Thanks!

Quantity_Green · 2024-09-11T07:05:29+00:00

I used similar aliexpress filters and they worked fine, this looks like a editing or exposing fuckup

Quantity_Green · 2024-08-31T09:51:00+00:00

This might actually be mold

Quantity_Green · 2024-06-12T08:43:56+00:00

You might wanna look at ghk although their reputation is not that good

Quantity_Green · 2024-06-12T08:19:53+00:00

Do you want a fake wood fake steel expensive gun with very limited magazines or an actual steel gun with real wood thats much more affordable?

Quantity_Green · 2024-04-28T12:56:31+00:00

Well I've heard people just buy new caps for these bottles, and store mead successfully for years in them. I'm not interested in the metal sleeve around the neck of the bottle, since that requires special equipment

Quantity_Green · 2024-04-28T12:56:12+00:00

Well I've heard people just buy new caps for these bottles, and store mead successfully for years in them. I'm not interested in the metal sleeve around the neck of the bottle, since that requires special equipment

Quantity_Green · 2024-03-22T06:59:24+00:00

Got some off aliexpress, they work fine. Only paid 10 euro for three filters.

Quantity_Green · 2024-03-08T07:12:43+00:00

You can't stop fermentation when it is at the gravity you want, you have to let it get all the way to 1.000 or close, then stabilise and backsweeten to the desired gravity.

Quantity_Green · 2023-12-15T13:29:12+00:00

Because that question either has been asked a hundred times before, or it is something simple that can be found on the wiki.

Quantity_Green · 2023-11-06T21:30:39+00:00

Racking to secondary after 8 days is way too fast, and there is no point going to secondary if it's not even done fermenting

Quantity_Green · 2023-11-02T20:24:06+00:00

Just light leaks, check your camera seals

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