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Are lme's overly dark by nature?
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Overly dark? The term is undefinable. But they are generally darker than DMEs.

Revvy

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Yeah, that's one of the issues with liquid extracts...And the older it is, the darker it gets. Also the longer you boil the darker it gets as well.

I rely exclusively on Dry Malt Extract for my brews. I've been pretty much using extra light dme as the base and getting all my color/flavor complexity from my grains.

One way to mitigate the effects if the darker LME's is to do a late extract addition. Where you add the majority of your extract in the last 15 minutes of your boil...only using a couple pounds in the first part of the boil to get good hop utilization....

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Yeah, what Revvy said...

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timgman

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I suppose you'll need to think in relative terms.
ie. if oyur brewing a wheat from dme vs lme what one is going to be more "on" as far as color goes. (using commercial wheat brews is the 'benchmark') I suppose....
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malkore

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extract is concentrated wort. so it'll be much darker in the can than when you dilute it with water.

and your bucket or carboy will always look much darker than the final beer, because you're used to seeing 12 oz in a skinny glass, not 5 gallons in a 14" diameter vessel, especially buckets taht block light and make it even darker.

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Just did a wheat with LME and it looks way darker than I was hoping it would. Surprisinglly dark. Next time I'm trying DME and late addition.

EDIT: Color doesn't compare to commercial beers

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