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[zymot]

I bought Palmer's latest How To Brew, specifically for the water section. He makes a good effort to try to give you what you need to know and present it in the moist usable format. I read it once. Will read through it a couple more times, 

 

So far, too many variables interacting with each other to let me feel like I have wrapped my head around the subject.

 

I think of my local tap water as pretty hard. I go and buy 10 gallons of filtered drinking water on brew day.

 

When I read these things, it occurs to me what would be useful, if somebody wrote a water treatise "backwards". Everything I read, they start off in depth about water and PPM and this chemical, and that chemical, and so on. It is not until the end that I learn what the basic problem is. Maybe that is just me and how my peanut brain is organized.

[denny]

I bought Palmer's latest How To Brew, specifically for the water section. He makes a good effort to try to give you what you need to know and present it in the moist usable format. I read it once. Will read through it a couple more times, 

 

So far, too many variables interacting with each other to let me feel like I have wrapped my head around the subject.

 

I think of my local tap water as pretty hard. I go and buy 10 gallons of filtered drinking water on brew day.

 

When I read these things, it occurs to me what would be useful, if somebody wrote a water treatise "backwards". Everything I read, they start off in depth about water and PPM and this chemical, and that chemical, and so on. It is not until the end that I learn what the basic problem is. Maybe that is just me and how my peanut brain is organized.

 

Which is what we do in Simple Homebrewing.  One of the sections I'm most proud of is simplifying water treatment.  Also, this is a great resource....all the info you need in a much more understandable format than "Water"....https://sites.google...water-knowledge

[zymot]

Which is what we do in Simple Homebrewing.  One of the sections I'm most proud of is simplifying water treatment.  Also, this is a great resource....all the info you need in a much more understandable format than "Water"....https://sites.google...water-knowledge

 

Great. I will order it. I am curious. Does it make a difference to the author if I order paperback or kindle version?

[denny]

Great. I will order it. I am curious. Does it make a difference to the author if I order paperback or kindle version?

 

I assume the author makes less with the Kindle version.

[zymot]

Good thing I sprung for the paperback. Delivery tomorrow.

[denny]

Good thing I sprung for the paperback. Delivery tomorrow.

 

Thanks for your support!  If the sales of this book are high enough, we may be able to put out a revised copy of Experimental Homebrewing.

[zymot]

Which is what we do in Simple Homebrewing.  One of the sections I'm most proud of is simplifying water treatment.  Also, this is a great resource....all the info you need in a much more understandable format than "Water"....https://sites.google...water-knowledge

 

Denny, Ordered my hard copy of Simple Homebrewing. Very good. The water section was the best explanation of what I need to know and what is important. Read it three times, second time withe highlighter.

 

I left an enthusiastic review on Amazon. You should see the review in a day or so.

[denny]

Denny, Ordered my hard copy of Simple Homebrewing. Very good. The water section was the best explanation of what I need to know and what is important. Read it three times, second time withe highlighter.

 

I left an enthusiastic review on Amazon. You should see the review in a day or so.

 

Thank you!  For the water section I just stepped you through exactly how I use Bru'nwater.  Then we had Martin check it to make sure it was accurate.

Edited by denny, 12 August 2019 - 09:01 AM.

[djinkc]

I started to reach for this book a couple days ago.  Then I stopped.  The top is getting dusty

[positiveContact]

Thank you!  For the water section I just stepped you through exactly how I use Bru'nwater.  Then we had Martin check it to make sure it was accurate.

 

not that I get to direct people at homebrewing anymore but if I do I'll def be directing them towards this book.  likely the book I wish I had had.

[HVB]

Mine is used as much as yeast... Never. I remember be excited for it before I got it but that went away fast!

[positiveContact]

Mine is used as much as yeast... Never. I remember be excited for it before I got it but that went away fast!

I assume you are talking about water?

[HVB]

I assume you are talking about water?

Both books Water and Yeast I got very far with either. I looked a few things up in both but never actually read them. They are with many others in a pile in the brewery.

[positiveContact]

just making sure you weren't talking about Denny's book

[denny]

Both books Water and Yeast I got very far with either. I looked a few things up in both but never actually read them. They are with many others in a pile in the brewery.

Neither of those books was aimed at homebrewers.

[positiveContact]

Neither of those books was aimed at homebrewers.

 

that became clear very early on after I started reading it

[HVB]

Neither of those books was aimed at homebrewers.

Maybe the case but they were marketed to the homebrewing market pretty hard.

[positiveContact]

Maybe the case but they were marketed to the homebrewing market pretty hard.

I seem to remember that as well.

[denny]

Maybe the case but they were marketed to the homebrewing market pretty hard.

Yes, the were.  Wherever you can sell books, you sell books.  But that was the hoped, not intended, market.