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Libigage

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Hi,I made a Greg Hughes bohemian pilsner. I used weyermann floor malted bohemian pilsner Malt with wyeast 2124 from the MM. This looks very dark to me ,is this normal?
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Was it 100% pilsner malt? It does look rather dark, but without knowing if you used any other malts all I can say is it's much darker than the pilsner I made with that malt. Did you decoct at all? How long was your boil and did you get any scorching on the boil kettle?
 
These clear pressure fermenters seem to make the beer look much darker than it is. I was really worried that I’d cocked up my Helles by using the wrong Caramunich or something because it was so dark in the fermenter but it’s turned out the perfect colour.

Had a similar issue with my Mexican lager but it’s didn’t look quite as dark as my Helles.

This was my Helles in the fermenter:
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And this was it in the glass:
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Was it 100% pilsner malt? It does look rather dark, but without knowing if you used any other malts all I can say is it's much darker than the pilsner I made with that malt. Did you decoct at all? How long was your boil and did you get any scorching on the boil kettle?
100%pilsner Malt, 60 minute boil and zero scorching.only thing I did different was I put it in a hdpe container for 2 weeks whilst I fermented another brew. I took a reading today and obviously had to taste it and it tasted fine so I'm not to worried. Just wondered why it was so dark.i guess time will tell
 
These clear pressure fermenters seem to make the beer look much darker than it is. I was really worried that I’d cocked up my Helles by using the wrong Caramunich or something because it was so dark in the fermenter but it’s turned out the perfect colour.

Had a similar issue with my Mexican lager but it’s didn’t look quite as dark as my Helles.

This was my Helles in the fermenter:
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And this was it in the glass:
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Can't see your picture of the fermenter
 
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