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To: tired&retired

Do the chloramines interfere with fermentation or is there more to it than that?


18 posted on 07/05/2015 8:03:12 AM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: Bob

Residual chlorine may react with phenols in malt to produce chlorophenols, which lend a plastic like taste to beer at parts-per-billion levels.


53 posted on 07/06/2015 5:02:37 AM PDT by tired&retired
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