Water Flashcards
What is Calcium Chloride?
Table Salt
What does High Chloride do to beer?
Makes a rounder, fuller, mouthfeel, mellowness to malt based beers
Table Salt
What is Calcium Sulfate?
Gypsum
What does Calcium Sulfate do to beer?
Gypsum
Makes beer drier, crisp, bitterness to hoppy ales
Pale Ales
Gypsum
Give an exaple of a beer with Calcium Sulfate:
Gypsum
Pale Ales
Where do you find beers with Calcium Sulfate?
Gypsum
Burton-on-Trent, England
What is the positive role of Calcium?
- The enzyme Alpha Amylase need it to break starches into sugars
- Yeast require it to flocculate
- Helps acidify the mash
What is Calcium Carbonate?
Limestone
Where do you find high Calcium Carbonate?
Limestone
Munich, Germany and Dublin, Ireland
What does high levels of Calcium Carbonate do to beer?
Limestone
1. Makes beer darker in color
2. Reduces the amount of extract from malt
3. Alters hop flavors - bitterness, astringent
4. Slighly alkaline - high PH
Historically, what did brewers use to mitigate high Calcium Carbonate?
Limestone
They used Acidic, Dark Malts to bring down the Ph
What style of beer is influenced by Calcium Carbonate?
Limestone
Munich Dunkel and Irish Stout
Name a beer making location famed for its high limestone (calcium carbonate) content water and one of the beer styles that were developed there.
Munich, Germany - Munich Dunkle
Dublin, Ireland - Irish Stout
Name a beer making location famed for it’s high gypsum (calcium sulfate) and a style brewed there
Burton-on-Trent - Pale Ale, IPA’s
