Craft Beer & Brewing Course
Brewing Water: A Practical Approach
Brewing Water: A Practical Approach will teach you the basic information you need to evaluate your water and make the adjustments needed to brew the best beer possible.
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Brewing water isn't an easy topic, but it’s an important one. Sometimes it seems like finding reliable information and advice requires an advanced chemistry degree. We’ve tried to simplify a complex subject into easy-to-understand pieces that are simultaneously accurate, accessible, and easy to apply.
Course contents
5 chapters, 23 lessons
Chapter 1
Welcome
- Welcome
Chapter 2
WHY WATER MATTERS
- Hold on a minute: Do I need to bother with water chemistry?
- Water Quality
- Mash Chemistry
- Flavor
Chapter 3
BREWING WATER BASICS
- What exactly is water anyway?
- Ionic order
- pH
- Yeah, but what does pH have to do with ions?
- Meet the cations (pronounced "cat eye ons")
- Meet the anions (pronounced "an eye ons")
- Calcium and bicarbonate
Chapter 4
PUTTING IT INTO PRACTICE
- The approach
- Water reports
- What if my water's no good?
- Measuring mash pH
- Mash water additions
- Other acidification measures
- Flavor adjustment
- How much do I add?
- A word on chlorine
Chapter 5
CONCLUSION
- Additional resources
- Thank You!
What students say
Where every brewer should start
Where every brewer should start. Provides a generalized introduction to brewing water. Covers many basic water elements and applies those elements for an easier understanding how water effects your final product. Cheers!
Excellent intro to a very complex topic
Excellent intro to a very complex topic. What I like about this course is its succinct breakdown of various minerals in water and their effect on things like flavour and characteristics of beer. Thanks!
A solid introduction to the key components of brewing water.
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Good title
Brief explanation. Could have used some examples and more detail.
Does what the title says
Good overview
Good introduction to the topic of water.
a good guide
Concise and understandable. Only part missing from the "practical" application is how to add the salts to the mash. Is it simply just after mash-in, or after mash-out? And do we just add the salts and stir?
Thankyou!
Took a text book worth of baffling waffle and summed it up in a short course that's easy to understand.
Brewing Water
Pretty informative but there could have been some sample water profiles that are used in an Ale, Lager, Pilsner, etc. Could have been from using Distilled Water or Reverse Osmosis and show how to add brewing salts to get the brewer to the desired water profile.
Just enough information
I had previously read a bit on brewing water and was familiar with some of the software mentioned, but I found the course beneficial as an overall guide and something I can refer back to if needed.
No I got it
Finally simply I got the idea how to check and how to change pH
Brewing Water Chemistry Simplified
Course simplified those terms that one needs to know regarding brewing water and mash chemistry.
Good information
This was a basic introduction to brewing water and as mentioned the use of water chemistry software is very beneficial.
Nice Course
Having never done a chemistry course in my life, this course was really easy to follow and I took away a lot of good notes. I would have loved a few videos to be included but still a great course.
Good class. Does what it says. Need more.
Would love to see a follow up intermediate and advanced class that gets a little more in depth. Something that guides us through how to use Bru'n Water would be especially great.
It's true, the approach is very practical and gives a layman's understanding of what can be a complicated science.
Well presented, but probably could have benefitted from some graphics.
Good Quick Over View
When do you add the chemicals? To the water or to the mash with the grain?
Very good course. Emphasis was made on the pH of the mash, not the water. So do you add the chemicals to the mash with the grain in? When/how do you add the chemicals when using pH strips? Many thanks for this valuable information.
The best approach
Plain and simple, very easy to understand.
Very good one !
Needs more
Not enough. Only basic with just limited amount of information. A video would be good too.
appropriate title, save that it's listed as a video course
text, again, why list as a video course? decent info, easy to follow, but i would not want to pay for it. much more thorough info on brewing water available online for free.
Brewing Water: A Practical Approach
Detailed enough and quite easy to understand!
Great!
Nice simplified info for a complex topic
The Facts!
Not overwhelming. Gives you what you need to know. Easy read.
Great resource
Excellent Information
I have been trying to get my water profile correct and this course answered a lot of the questions i had and pointed me in the right direction for improving my mash Ph
Good intro to water!
Informative and gives high-level overview of things to consider.
very good.
Brewing Water
Nice overview