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Celebrating 20 years of
Homebrewing July, 1997 Volume 20, Issue 7 Belgian Water Profiles by Dave Draper ddraper@utdallas.edu http://hbd.org/~ddraper/beer/waterpro.html July is the Water roundtable discussion. September is the Belgian Style-of-the-Month. - Editor Several days ago I received e-mail from Jacques Bertens, who is a Dutch-speaking brewer living in Belgium (I think!!). Jacques attended a course in professional beer sampling given by the Brewing Research Department of the University of Leuven (Belgium), and as part of the lesson on water, obtained a list of water profiles for ten Belgian brewing towns. In his e-mail to me, Jacques very kindly sent me these profiles to add to my list on my web pages. These are now in place, and interested readers should have a look. The numbers are in parts per million (ppm).
Note the large variations in water composition over this comparatively small region. Surely this is one part of the ways that Belgian beers are so distinctive. I hope you will all join me in thanking Jacques for this excellent contribution to online beer knowledge. Brewers of Belgian styles rejoice! |
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