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Brewing Water Hardness & Style

Beer is almost entirely water. Why Pilsen, Burton, and Munich each brewed such different beers, what hardness does in the glass, and how breweries now build their own water from scratch.

  1. Chapter 1Why Water Shaped Beer StyleThe Quiet Ingredient
  2. Chapter 2Water Hardness in Brewing: Calcium, Sulfate, ChlorideReading Brewing Water
  3. Chapter 3Pilsner Water: Why Pilsner Needs Soft WaterPilsen, Soft
  4. Chapter 4Burton Water: Gypsum, Pale Ale, and IPABurton, Gypsum-Rich
  5. Chapter 5Munich and Dublin: dark beer from hard waterCarbonate and roasted malt
  6. Chapter 6Dortmund, Vienna, Cologne: when water doesn't explain everythingExport, Vienna lager, Kölsch
  7. Chapter 7Treating brewing water: how breweries build their water todayWater made to order
  8. Chapter 8Felsquellwasser & Co.: myths about brewing waterAdvertising and truth

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