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"TheBeerNut":2qzotwfo wrote: Leaving aside exactly what constitutes "neutral" water, can water profiles be concentrated and rehydrated this way?.[/quote:2qzotwfo]

reverse osmosis will remove ions from the water allow you to rebuild it back to what ever you want, usually in conjunction with activated carbon filtration

"donnchadhc":3ompflaw wrote: Isn't this what Guinness used to do? I remember hearing soemthing about Guiness sending cocnentrated wort to Indonesia in the early 1900's and topping it up there and fermenting it.[/quote:3ompflaw]

They still do!

"kev2403":3hkkshbu wrote:

"donnchadhc":3hkkshbu wrote: Isn't this what Guinness used to do? I remember hearing soemthing about Guiness sending cocnentrated wort to Indonesia in the early 1900's and topping it up there and fermenting it.[/quote:3hkkshbu]

They still do![/quote:3hkkshbu]

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Still though, I would assume that even with the addition of "Neutral" water it would change the characteristic of the beer.

&amp;quot;oblivious&amp;quot;:2acxv4bz wrote: reverse osmosis will remove ions from the water allow you to rebuild it back to what ever you want, usually in conjunction with activated carbon filtration[/quote:2acxv4bz]Yes, but that's not what I'm talking about: I mean dehydrating a mostly-water liquid and then simply rehydrating to get the same water profile. The observation that it's only really relevant to the mash pretty much answers my question.

&amp;quot;kev2403&amp;quot;:2acxv4bz wrote: They still do![/quote:2acxv4bz]They do two similar but different things: for their foreign breweries they send a tiny amount of concentrated wort, but most of the recipe is unique to the local brewery. For countries served from St James's Gate they brew [i:2acxv4bz]and ferment[/i:2acxv4bz] at high gravity then add dilute when the beer reaches the local keggery.

&amp;quot;donnchadhc&amp;quot;:2acxv4bz wrote: Still though, I would assume that even with the addition of "Neutral" water it would change the characteristic of the beer.[/quote:2acxv4bz]Ah, but change it from what? With SLBC there's no "original" version of the beer brewed in Ireland to compare it with.

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:1swdw0z1 wrote: Ah, but change it from what? With SLBC there's no "original" version of the beer brewed in Ireland to compare it with.[/quote:1swdw0z1]



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