I recently made an extract pale ale kit with steeping grains. It was:
extract:
3 lb gold dme
3.3 lb pilsen LME
steeping:
12oz Briess Cara-Pils
1.25lb Honey malt
.5 oz magnum 60 min
1.5 oz amarillo 5 min
1.5 oz amarillo 0 min
So I did a 2 gallon boil and boiled all of the extract for 60 mins. I get the feeling that the finished product was darker than it was intended to be. I really love the beer it tastes great but I have to wonder if the darker color is due to the long boil. Someone told me that I can boil half the extract for the whole time and then add the rest at 15 mins left. With this logic cant I just add all of the extract at 15 min? is there a downside to this? perhaps the hotbreak will not flocculate as much protein leading to cloudy beer and or chill haze? that is the only thing I can think of why not to do this?
any thoughts?
extract:
3 lb gold dme
3.3 lb pilsen LME
steeping:
12oz Briess Cara-Pils
1.25lb Honey malt
.5 oz magnum 60 min
1.5 oz amarillo 5 min
1.5 oz amarillo 0 min
So I did a 2 gallon boil and boiled all of the extract for 60 mins. I get the feeling that the finished product was darker than it was intended to be. I really love the beer it tastes great but I have to wonder if the darker color is due to the long boil. Someone told me that I can boil half the extract for the whole time and then add the rest at 15 mins left. With this logic cant I just add all of the extract at 15 min? is there a downside to this? perhaps the hotbreak will not flocculate as much protein leading to cloudy beer and or chill haze? that is the only thing I can think of why not to do this?
any thoughts?