Comment on A few photos from yesterday's brew up (beer)

UsefulInfoPlz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Naich@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yup. Gypsum and some 5.2 pH buffer.

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  • alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’d recommend dissolving the salts in water before it is added to mixture, otherwise it may not dissolve completely over mashing time and might be not homogeneously distributed.

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    • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      For most brewing salts, hot water works best to dissolve them. Gypsum specifically works the other way around, where it dissolves best in cold water (retrograde solubility). I always used to just throw the gypsum in before I started heating my strike water, and any other salts after it was hot but before grain.

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