Adjust It! How pH Effects Your Beer & How To Manage It! | YouTube Summarizer

Category: Brewing Tips

Tags: acid beer brewing pH water

Entities: Bruin Water spreadsheet lactic acid phosphoric acid

Summary

Water Chemistry in Brewing

Measuring pH is crucial when adjusting water chemistry before fermentation.
Adjusting pH with phosphoric acid varies depending on the water's alkalinity.
High alkalinity requires more acid to lower pH effectively.
Using the Bruin Water spreadsheet can help guide pH adjustments.
Trial and error, along with scaling measured volumes, can refine acid usage.

Actionable Takeaways

Measure pH before fermentation to ensure proper acid adjustment.
Consider the alkalinity of your water when determining acid amounts.
Use resources like the Bruin Water spreadsheet for guidance.
Experiment with different acids to find what works best for your brew.
Seek help from knowledgeable friends to set up complex tools like spreadsheets.

Transcript

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biker and metal head when should you measure the pH of the work if you want to lower it prior to going into the fermenter for example I want to lower the ph to around 4.6 using food grade phosphoric acid should I measure the pH

00:17

at 30 minutes left in the boil is there any rule of thumb as to how much phosphoric acid to use here's the tricky thing with this it's a great question it's going to be different for everybody and with your different Waters okay

00:32

like my water right now the the makeup of my water is such that I have to use a lot of acid to move to move the to to move the dial you know when it comes to dropping dropping pH

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it's because and I might be butchering this and and a legit science person is probably there you know rubbing their chin and looking angrily at me but I I believe it it's the uh it's the high alkalinity in in my water

01:06

um that that it it makes it very difficult to to pull down that pH uh with acid so I have a buddy that can adjust his entire HLT with like 60 mils of acid dude I need

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shoot I need a half liter of acid to adjust my strike for Brewing IPA all right so it's just it's just crazy you know what I mean so that end of it it's going to be different for

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everybody there's different ways to go to to go about it uh biker metal head I would suggest that you download and dive into the Bruin water uh spreadsheet it's super good it'll kind of walk you

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through how to do things it might be a little bit daunting to set up it's daunting for me I I had a friend set it up for me it's daunting for me but grind through it or have a smart friend and then learn how to use it because that

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that will help guide you a little bit for me also I've done just a little bit of trial and error you know throwing a little bit because I know I have to use so much acid um you know throwing throwing a little something you could also um you could also pull a measured volume

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and then dose that right and then you can scale that up based on your volume okay um so that that's really my my recommendation um for all of that again I know we've talked about it a

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little bit it's my hunch that if you have to use a lot of acid to adjust potentially phosphoric maybe more flavor neutral um but again I know a lot of dudes that are making killer beers with all lactic

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acid adjustments so you know do do you bike your metal head all right everybody thank you so much for watching if you feel as if you got any value out of the video please like And subscribe there are also other

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