I'm still in the start-up phase of my brewery - so no commercial equipment yet. However, when I had a 10 gallon, and now that I have a 1BBL homebrew setup, I have always treated all of my process water per the beer style I am going for. For me, it has always been rather easy, as I will take a sample of strike water, do my calculations, add the salts/acid to the sample, and mix the sample into the HLT / MT / BK.
On commercial systems - is there any particular equipment or methods that you use that are effective? I am thinking mostly for the HLT - considering that the MT is pretty easy to treat - the sparge water is less convenient in a commercial setup. I know a lot of operating breweries, A LOT, that do not treat their water. Although I will never understand why this corner is cut, I admit I am sure it takes more time and effort to do it in a commercial setting.
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On commercial systems - is there any particular equipment or methods that you use that are effective? I am thinking mostly for the HLT - considering that the MT is pretty easy to treat - the sparge water is less convenient in a commercial setup. I know a lot of operating breweries, A LOT, that do not treat their water. Although I will never understand why this corner is cut, I admit I am sure it takes more time and effort to do it in a commercial setting.
Ok - go!
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