Is it supposed to be this dark?

[BrewnWKopperKat]

My experiences with morebeer have also been positive. And, it should be noted that they

• offer their 'extract' kits with the option of dry or liquid extract, and
• ship LME using oxygen barrier bags

(aside: as I was scanning their LME products, I see they have an Ultralight LME (2-row), a Pilnser LME (pilsner), and a Pale Malt LME (2-row) - along with many of the Briess LMEs. Having had good results with Williams LME, I may give the Ultralight LME a try).

i recently have been looking at a lot of kit recipes online and have been surprised at a lot fo the grain bills.

Kits recipes and instructions can be a source of really good (as well as really bad) ideas and techniques.

 

[BeerAndTele]

then the kit arrived and the carapils didnt look like carapils. like not even close to caraipls.
below is the pic of the kits carapils on the right (which says briess- but doenst look like my usual briess) and my usual cara (single packaged briess) on the left .

This is interesting. I recently bought a couple ounces of Briess carapils from my LHBS and it looked exactly like the bag on the right in your pic. I talked to the owner and also wondered if it was carapils copper, and he said no, it was definitely regular carapils. He said the whole batch he got from his supplier looked like that … in Briess carapils packaging. He didn’t say who his supplier was, and I didn’t ask. I used it anyway and the beer turned out great and was not appreciably darker than I expected, though the carapils was only 3.8% of the grain bill.

 

[fluketamer]

hmmmmm. a previous batch of cara that i didint take a pic of had a fair amount of kernals that were defiantely darker than the rest and it made me nervous when i put them through the mill but i also didn't notice a difference in the beer. like you it was only 4 ouncers in 5 gallons. sounds like maybe its a supplier thing like you say and not just a mistake at MB.