What went wrong

I recently brewed a brewers best white IPA. Color came out dark and the flavor doesn't seem right. I followed the directions to a t. This was my first partial mash extract I've done. Previously I brewed to extract with a mr beer kit.... the second one was decent out of he two.

 

We will need a lot more information about how you brewed this kit. Be pretty precise in your explanation of everything you did.

 

2.5 gal of water in the pot temp got to 160 and added the grains for 20 min. Added the 2 cans of lme and then the dme. Boiled 60min with proper hop editions. When lme was added I removed the pot from the burner. Ice bathed the wort added it to the fast fermenter topped off to 5 gal dry pitched the yeast and let ferment at 68 for 3 weeks

 

Thanks Yooper I'll try that next time.

 

I typically add my LME with 20 min to go but I stir it in and make sure to not let it caramelize on the bottom of the pan unless it is a very malty beer and then sometimes I like the additional caramelization aspect

 

This is some of the best advice I got when I first started brewing. My first few beers ended up with lumps of burned extract on the bottom of the pot because I boiled it too long and didn't stir it in enough.

Also, I've been meaning to ask: when I use DME these days, I rehydrate it at a simmer in a separate pot before adding it to the wort, just to make sure I'm getting it well dissolved. Is there any reason I *shouldn't* do this?

 

I usually just reduce my initial boil volume by a half-gallon or so and heat that volume of water to dissolve the DME to roughly the consistency of a syrup. Then I add it to the kettle at ~20 minutes. So yeah, I take the addition into account when calculating my boil volume.