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I'm making for the second time what some proclaimed as the best beer I've made yet.
http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/441445/chartreuse-microbus
The only change I intended to make was to increase the bittering hops to account for closer to 40IBU (the first time was only 30).
I mistakenly measured out and put in my mash water Calcium Carbinate (Chalk) instead of Gypsum (and wondered why the water looked cloudy, duh). This went into my mash for 5 minutes until I realized my mistake. I have drained the mash tun and started heating new water. So how bad did I jack this up? A million questions start swirling in my head about PH, grains now having been in contact with that for 5 minutes, what's happening to them while they sit there wet waiting for new water, efficiency loss and how that will affect hop utlisation (the one thing I'm confident I can measure and correct).
???
MrBIP
http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/441445/chartreuse-microbus
The only change I intended to make was to increase the bittering hops to account for closer to 40IBU (the first time was only 30).
I mistakenly measured out and put in my mash water Calcium Carbinate (Chalk) instead of Gypsum (and wondered why the water looked cloudy, duh). This went into my mash for 5 minutes until I realized my mistake. I have drained the mash tun and started heating new water. So how bad did I jack this up? A million questions start swirling in my head about PH, grains now having been in contact with that for 5 minutes, what's happening to them while they sit there wet waiting for new water, efficiency loss and how that will affect hop utlisation (the one thing I'm confident I can measure and correct).
???
MrBIP