Yes mate I have gave the calculator a bash, still getting used of the site, all these calculators brilliant, make the game so much faster ;-)

Im guessing thats what im aiming for, big fan oh the Scottish hoppy brew dog and Williams brothers IPAs

now I have the profile I have been playing aboot with the calculator and salt additions 2.5g gypsum, 0.2g calcium chloride, 1g magnesium chloride and 1 ml of lactic acid brings me very close to this target profile

after some stressful digging, I have managed to establish through the charts and hard water report that my tap profile is Calcium 10.49 mg/L Magnesium 1.48 mg/L Sodium 4.45 mg/L Chloride 6 mg/L Sulphate 11.18 mg/L Calcium Carbonate 32.23 mg/L guessing this is a nice soft water to play...

Aye av read about the RO water but believe me bud, where I stay that stuff is unheard of, I have went off the bottle spring water idea seens every bottle i check has 200+ mg/l of bicarbonate unsure why that is but guessing this is the alkalinity problem, found small bits oh info online about my...

With me its just greed mate, fact I'm only doin 4.5-5 litre batches, would grudge the extra space left in the DemiJohn if I done 3.7... thats an extra bottles worth :)

Hi Mate yeah.. I am well aware of that now and its annoying when the majority oh Recipes i am attempting to scale are five gallon... I have basically been converting the us gallon to litres, dividing it by 5 then multiplying it by 1.32 which gets me to around the 5 litre mark same with the dry...

update, phoned the local brew store and they informed me they just use tap water not even bothering about the chlorine... they have FAR more knowledge on this than me but not sure what to think of that

I do have a scaled milk stout recipe I was planning, you think I should reserve this water for that then ?

So I have been getting all deep into water profile and mash PH research, have read a few places that a beginner in all grain, brewing 1 gallon batches shouldn't worry to much at this point and indeed the brew store gives no reference what so ever to this in their all grain kits. Being a bit oh...

Thanks for the replies folks, put my mind at ease a bit, I am deffo going to purchase the better grain bag, was put off as the smallest was 5 gallon which I assumed would be to big, I will also scale my recipe's to 5 litre leaving a bit extra , after a bit reading I have also been made aware...

Hi All Im new to all grain brewing, have done a bit of 5 Gallon Extract in the past but far prefer the new found Challenge of recreating some lovely craft beers. I live in A tower block flat in Scotland, anybody aware oh these will also be aware there is nae space for much, also the electric...