wort color seperation

[RNBEERGUY]

i brewed a strawberry blond yesterday with extra lite malt extract my wort ended up being much darker than i thought it would is this normal ? my beer is supposed to be 3 srm also a few hour after pitching yeast there seems to be a separation of colors in carboy the top part has is lighter while the bottom is darker and its falling did I do something wrong? I boiled hard, used irish moss, chilled, and whirlpooled with spoon after chilling.

 

[flars]

Nothing wrong. The beer in the fermentor will always look darker than it should because of the mass. Take a SG sample. The beer will be much lighter in color with light being able to go through it in your sample tube.

Top of you beer is lighter in color from the just pitched suspended yeast. It will even out as soon as the yeast becomes active.

 

[homebrewer_99]

As your beer clears the top will look darker because light is not reflecting off of the yeast (because it's falling out of suspension).

 

[Lefou]

A gentle swirl of the wort within your primary can distribute the yeast -if that's what you want. It wouldn't hurt anything as long as the disturbance doesn't get wort in your airlock.
If you're using an ale yeast that's a known top fermenter, don't worry. The yeast has a mind of its own and will reproduce quickly enough to make your container look like a snow globe as fermentation progresses. I like Kolsch yeast for my milder ales and when it gets going it works well ... even after settling to the bottom and acting like a lager yeast.