Salt in Beer

[beltbuckle]

Yeah you can get non-iodized salt at almost any grocery store. Morton's has two varieties in the cylindrical containers that make for easy pouring: plain and iodized. Just get the plain one. Pickling salt is also fine, and in fact is slightly more pure than non-iodized table salt since pickling salt has no flow-enhancing agents.



Incidentally us BBQers use this salt to because iodine ain't so great for BBQ either...

[nathanm]

I got a growler of beer when visiting friends in Moab, UT. The beer we got was so bitter/unbalanced that I had a hard time drinking it. I mixed a little table salt in some water - enough to dissolve it, poured it into my pint glass and enjoyed a less bitter and more balanced beer.

I used regular morton non-iodized salt in my latest rye pale ale to help balance my water profile out and make the final beer a bit more malty - threw it into the mash at the beginning. Of course, this was based on a water quality report and calculations via an excel file I downloaded.