Salts & Acids

Fine-tune your water chemistry and fermentation profile with professional-grade salts and acids for brewing, winemaking, and cider making. This collection includes essentials like gypsum, calcium chloride, and Epsom salt for adjusting hardness and sulfate or chloride balance in beer, along with acid blends, citric, malic, tartaric, and lactic acids for adjusting must or sparge pH. Products such as potassium metabisulfite, Campden tablets, and ascorbic acid provide antioxidant and microbial control, while potassium bicarbonate and calcium carbonate allow for careful deacidification. Whether you’re perfecting a hop-forward IPA, balancing a crisp white wine, or preserving a cider, these additives offer reliable control—supported by friendly expert guidance, fast nationwide shipping, and same-day pickup or delivery in Chicago.