I have only made 3 home brews so far. 2 were kits and one was a muntons. The two kits I brew were a honey wheat and a Belgium witbier. The color on these two turned out to be an Amber color. Is there a reason it would be this color. Also the Belgium witbier does have a Amber beer taste to it.
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Extract won't give you the color you'd expect all of the time. Color control, as odd as that seems, is the only reason I went all grain. Carmelizrion was a factor when I brewed and my Hefeweizen came out fairly darker for the style. Same as my pale ale. Try adding your extract about 5 minutes before flame out. It will help, but even extra light extract was bordering on an amber color. That's all based on my experience.
Fishin-Jay
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It's the extract. I was never able to get a truly "golden" beer, even with late extract additions, until I switched to all grain.
Don't despair, your beers will get better as you go. If you're anything like me you want perfect beer, exactly what you were aiming for in flavor, color, and style. It took me 5 years of brewing -and learning- before I made my first beer that turned out exactly the way I wanted it. If that's what you're aiming for (I may be projecting my own obsessive nature here
), then you'll get there in time.
Don't despair, your beers will get better as you go. If you're anything like me you want perfect beer, exactly what you were aiming for in flavor, color, and style. It took me 5 years of brewing -and learning- before I made my first beer that turned out exactly the way I wanted it. If that's what you're aiming for (I may be projecting my own obsessive nature here
), then you'll get there in time.
slym2none
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Also seems that LME is more prone to being dark than DME. Use about 30 % early and the rest at the end...
HAHA! OMG I want to blame the iPad, but I doubt it was the issue.
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Doesn't seem weird to me at all since that's the same reason I went AG. There's been a few extra bonuses with the transition.
I'll echo all the previous comments and say that color control with extract brewing is difficult. I was never able to get my beers light enough despite doing 95% flameout additions of extract. I still made some TASTY beers but there was something never quite right about the color.
I have found that extracts do tend to be darker but with careful ingredient selection and late extract addition I can get beers that are only slightly darker that an all grain equivalent. I do an extra pale ale all grain that is about 5.2 SRM. The extract version IMO would not go over 6 SRM.
drainbamage
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It can be done, but your best bet is pilsen or extra-light DME and late additions (then steeped grains or mini-mash for further color control).
drainbamage
The Poop Bag Guy
Couldn't edit, here's a pic. That's pilsen DME with a Vienna/Munich/Acidulated Malt mini-mash. It's actually even a little lighter-colored than the lighting suggests.
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drainbamage
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slym2none
"Lazy extract brewer."
You will now & forever be known as "Carmelizrion".
I been called worse, last night in fact.
slym2none
"Lazy extract brewer."
I been called worse, last night in fact.
I was gonna ask, but now I am not sure if I want to know...
It wasn't nice, I'll leave it at that.
