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Cake day: November 19th, 2024

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  • Going after light color quickly ends up a challenge. Extract mfgrs do not invest much effort into conforming to color, it’s tricky and would quickly kick the costs up, while few users will go full length of making sure the rest operations keep color light. Pretty much anything that is not fermentable sugar will darken beer on every heating stage. Fermentable sugar would darken too, but a bit slower. So going pale requires good ingredients and experience, you’ll get there eventually if you want.

    I personally do not enjoy chasing light colors, though. Not worth the trouble imo. Still play with it occasionally. It is indeed much easier with fullgrain, which is all I do.