water Profiles

Hey guys.
Ive been having a recurring issue of harsh bitterness and very litte to no hop flavour coming through. I have purchased a 3 stage water filter and have tried it but still im not getting much hop flavour but the harshness has disapated.

I mainly brew pale ales, xpa's and ipas.
My local council is nice enough to make my water profile available on a quarterly basis so i have the current file. I have punched this data into beersmith and im its telling me m beers sould be extremly malty.

Thanks mate.

I will give this a crack!

with water profiles , is there away of testing the water yaself

the reason i ask this is some areas have a couple of different water encatchments for drinking water and each are treated differently at different times

it would be a costly adventure to be get water tests done everytime you brewed by a water doctor or whatever like to call them

if we could do it ourselves from our taps every so often through some kit it we would be fairly spot on then relying on a 3 month or 6 month water test the water board produces

David Heath brewing has a goid one using a aquarium water test kit.

sittingaround wrote:

David Heath brewing has a goid one using a aquarium water test kit.

thats what gave the idea of asking the question


where i live we have 3 reservoirs merrimu, Pykes and melton

so you would want al three water analysis for them and if western water changed what they are putting in these reservoirs you may not get the great readings back

so leaves you getting water and getting it somewhere tested or by doing it yourself

Yeah same. I bought a kit the other week and tessted my tap water so i could compare it with the report from my local council. Surprisingly the report was pretty spot on and it was super easy to do.