Pilsner water profile- quick question

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  1. FATC1TY

    FATC1TY Pooh-Bah (2,564) Feb 12, 2012 Georgia
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    I'm pretty sure I only need to do a kettle addition today, I have RO water for the whole recipe.

    Bo-Pils, needs to be really soft water. Been tossed the idea of around 50ppm of calcium. Want more chlorides than sulfates obviously.

    BS2's profile for Pilsen water profile doesn't look terrible to me, but has me adding chalk, baking soda, epsom salts, and of course the calcium chloride I figured I would only be using.

    Any ideas or help here? Too much, or too little? Show it as only 7 PPM of calcium...
     
    #1 FATC1TY, Jul 28, 2013
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    FATC1TY Pooh-Bah (2,564) Feb 12, 2012 Georgia
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    Ehh. I got it.. The Pilsen numbers are good, but the CA will be too low for yeast to flocc out well enough.

    Gonna up it to around 40ppm, add some Chalk and a pinch of epsom salts and should land me where I want.
     
    #2 FATC1TY, Jul 28, 2013
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    michaeltrego Crusader (447) May 21, 2004 New Hampshire

    I would stick to calcium chloride only. See how high you can get the calcium without going over 40-50 ppm chloride.
     
    #3 michaeltrego, Jul 28, 2013
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    hopfenunmaltz Pooh-Bah (2,635) Jun 8, 2005 Michigan
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    They do a triple decoction at PU,which starts with an acid rest. That helps neutralize the small alkalinity, and the decoction helps with the low Ca. I would just get the Ca up to 30 to 40 ppm with CaCl2. You get enough Mg from the mash.
     
    #4 hopfenunmaltz, Jul 28, 2013
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    FATC1TY Pooh-Bah (2,564) Feb 12, 2012 Georgia
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    I can get to 29PPM calcium, and it'll be around 50PPM chloride.. That what I ended up doing. I could put a pinch of chalk in there to up the calcium, but that raises my HCO3 to around 7.2 PPM.
     
    #5 FATC1TY, Jul 28, 2013
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    FATC1TY Pooh-Bah (2,564) Feb 12, 2012 Georgia
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    Thats exactly what I was thinking, and got from reading.. I'm already mashing. I plan to do a kettle addition of just CaCl and call it done.
     
    #6 FATC1TY, Jul 28, 2013
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