Acid Regulation using Coke!

[AHarper]

We can use many things to adjust the pH of the Mash such as Lactic Acid, Acidulated Malt and Phosphoric Acid solution.

Has anyone tried using Coca Cola yet? It is high in Phosphoric Acid and has a pH of about 2.3. I don't know what the concentration of it is so I wouldn't know the amounts involved but - and this is a general question (before I get shot down) but it may be a useful thing to use if you don't have any of the other regulators to hand.
Just a though.
Anyone have ideas?

 

[Silver_Is_Money]

If I did the 'monoprotic' math correctly, it only takes ~2.2 mL of 10% Phosphoric Acid to drop 2 Liters of water to a pH of 2.54, and since Phosphoric Acid is actually tri-protic it should in reality quite likely require something less than 2.2 mL.

As for Pepsi and Coke, I believe 2.54 to be right close to their actual reported pH level.

Due to relatively strong mash buffering, 2.2 mL of 10% Phosphoric Acid will barely move the pH of a roughly 12 Plato and 5.5 gallon yielding mash. Likely barely enough to be detected with a pH meter capable of reading to 2 decimal places.

You can see from this that in all likelihood there really isn't a lot of acid in these beverages. Which makes sense, as if they had loads of acid in them they would be deadly.

 

[AHarper]

If I did the 'monoprotic' math correctly, it only takes ~2.2 mL of 10% Phosphoric Acid to drop 2 Liters of water to a pH of 2.54, and since Phosphoric Acid is actually tri-protic it should in reality quite likely require something less than 2.2 mL.

As for Pepsi and Coke, I believe 2.54 to be right close to their actual reported pH level.

Due to relatively strong mash buffering, 2.2 mL of 10% Phosphoric Acid will barely move the pH of a roughly 12 Plato and 5.5 gallon yielding mash. Likely barely enough to be detected with a pH meter capable of reading to 2 decimal places.

You can see from this that in all likelihood there really isn't a lot of acid in these beverages. Which makes sense, as if they had loads of acid in them they would be deadly.

They are lol

 

[GFHomebrew]

Cleans coins pretty good too I hear...

 

[Craigerrr]

If I did the 'monoprotic' math correctly, it only takes ~2.2 mL of 10% Phosphoric Acid to drop 2 Liters of water to a pH of 2.54, and since Phosphoric Acid is actually tri-protic it should in reality quite likely require something less than 2.2 mL.

As for Pepsi and Coke, I believe 2.54 to be right close to their actual reported pH level.

Due to relatively strong mash buffering, 2.2 mL of 10% Phosphoric Acid will barely move the pH of a roughly 12 Plato and 5.5 gallon yielding mash. Likely barely enough to be detected with a pH meter capable of reading to 2 decimal places.

You can see from this that in all likelihood there really isn't a lot of acid in these beverages. Which makes sense, as if they had loads of acid in them they would be deadly.

 

[Silver_Is_Money]

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer, 19th century Philosopher