I'm new to home brewing. I don't really understand why color is important to people (or clarity for that matter). I brew beer to taste it, not to look at it. Why do you care about the color of your beer? I don't get it. I like to cook too. I also have never understood why people care about how a dish looks over how it tastes. If your gravy needs pepper, who cares whether it's white or black pepper? To me, being concerned with how a beer looks is like being concerned with how a sculpture tastes.