Kai
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I bought the ingredients for a lager today, I'm going to put it down soon then forget about it while I brew many other quicker drinking ales, and then revive it at the end of winter. I've only done one lager before and it was less than stellar.
This one is 2kg pils malt, 250g carapils, 250g melanoidin and 1 tin of unhopped extract. Hops are 50g perle for bittering to about 35 IBU and 25g tettnanger for flavour. Yeast is 2308 munich lager.
I'm wondering what do do for the water, since adelaide water is probably somewhat unsuited. I figure my options are these:
Use a benchtop water filter. I assume this won't be sufficient.
Purchase RO water
Choose and purchase spring/mineral water
Use a combination of RO and spring/mineral water
Purchase RO water and doctor it in some fashion, but I'm disinclined to run out to buy chemicals.
What shall I do?
This one is 2kg pils malt, 250g carapils, 250g melanoidin and 1 tin of unhopped extract. Hops are 50g perle for bittering to about 35 IBU and 25g tettnanger for flavour. Yeast is 2308 munich lager.
I'm wondering what do do for the water, since adelaide water is probably somewhat unsuited. I figure my options are these:
Use a benchtop water filter. I assume this won't be sufficient.
Purchase RO water
Choose and purchase spring/mineral water
Use a combination of RO and spring/mineral water
Purchase RO water and doctor it in some fashion, but I'm disinclined to run out to buy chemicals.
What shall I do?