stealing water profiles

bro, I have no clue what you are proposing. maybe use some sort of punctuation. would love to help!

 

I don't know if you can count on the beer's mineral profile being the same as the starting water's profile. But I would bet you can't.

 

I think all the solubles from malt, hops, adjuncts would mess with the results.

 

up your chloride (a lot - around 100), bring down your sulfate (around 75) and you will be close. I am playing with my levels of sodium as well, so I cant be certain on those, but I have a feeling they are fairly high as well

 

check out my response above. that should help you out

 

This seems like a difficult way to solve a problem that I think is really is of little consequence. This is my opinion, and perhaps it reflects that way I brew. I don't try to "nail" a clone recipe but am happy if I can make a beer that is good and reminds me of Favorite Brand X. I may just have lower standards. But I also suspect that matching the water profile is a minor concern here. I would be more concerned about matching many other things. For starters, do you pitch the right amount of yeast, do you aerate the wort appropriately, do you ferment at the right temperature, etc. At the same time, you need to recognize that your equipment and process are different. How you treat your yeast in a bucket fermenter and how you treat your yeast in 15 barrel brewhouse might need to differ to get you to a comparable effect. Without thinking too deeply, because it is after 5PM on Friday, I am imagining that there could be ways that water chem interacts with system and process, too, so that matching the brewery's water chem may not lead you to the same place. If you really want to nail a homebrewed clone, arming yourself with the sort of info you seek could be a first step, but I think the second, third, and umpteenth steps involve rebrewing your beer repeatedly with methodical tweaking until you are satisfied.

 

I have a dug well in nh that has 70 ppm chloride and 45 ppm sodium. everything else about my profile is low and I brew solid IPAs. There's a lot of ways to get to the end result.