stadelman wrote:I'm confused about the water for the Union Jack clone.
I do use Palmer's RA Spreadsheet and have a general understanding of water chemistry, but the "Add gypsum and CaCl to 100ppm" guidance doesn't seem like enough information to me.
For my system, I'm going to need about 5.8 gallons of mash water and 3.75 gallons of sparge water.
Can you offer any guidance on how to treat this amount of RO water for this recipe?
Thanks for your help
I'm confused about the water for the Union Jack clone.
I do use Palmer's RA Spreadsheet and have a general understanding of water chemistry, but the "Add gypsum and CaCl to 100ppm" guidance doesn't seem like enough information to me.
For my system, I'm going to need about 5.8 gallons of mash water and 3.75 gallons of sparge water.
Can you offer any guidance on how to treat this amount of RO water for this recipe?
driver8rws wrote:I'm confused about the water for the Union Jack clone.
I do use Palmer's RA Spreadsheet and have a general understanding of water chemistry, but the "Add gypsum and CaCl to 100ppm" guidance doesn't seem like enough information to me.
For my system, I'm going to need about 5.8 gallons of mash water and 3.75 gallons of sparge water.
Can you offer any guidance on how to treat this amount of RO water for this recipe?
Me too !!
Do they mean 100ppm of Calcium and 100ppm of Gypsum added to the RO water ?
Or "some combination" of Calcium and Gypsum that gets you to 100ppm of TOTAL SALTS !??!
bovine0001 wrote:I presume the emphasis is to use some Calcium source to obtain 100ppm. Since most of us simply use tap water, hopefully filtered, you are looking at finding out what your water already has in Calcium prior adding chalk or gypsum to obtain 100ppm.
Ozwald wrote:The goal is 100 ppm Ca. Since the 2 different methods of adding Ca don't add just Ca; you may have to use a combination of the 2 to stay within range on other elements. The starting water could vary immensely, so I'm assuming that would be the reason behind such a broad answer.
driver8rws wrote:Ozwald wrote:The goal is 100 ppm Ca. Since the 2 different methods of adding Ca don't add just Ca; you may have to use a combination of the 2 to stay within range on other elements. The starting water could vary immensely, so I'm assuming that would be the reason behind such a broad answer.
Ok, I can buy what you are saying with "the goal is 100ppm Ca" and that you would use SOME Gypsum and SOME CalciumChloride to get there.
Which of course as a "side effect" would also add some Sulfate and some Chloride.
BUT I totally DO NOT get what you are saying with "the starting water could vary immensely"...
NO it wouldn't... They said to start with RO water !! i.e. ZERO EVERYTHING...
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