HoosierDanny
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I mostly brew darker beers, but I want to brew an ale and keep the color lighter. Any tips.
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sickbrew
Grandmaster Brewer
I would choose style's with light color profiles. You mentioned ales so I would consider a pale ale, kolsch, rogenbeer or perhaps a Belgian beer in the golden category.
Good Luck.
Good Luck.
stevemwazup
Grandmaster Brewer
Are you brewing with extract or are you doing all grain?
If your brewing with extract, then you would want to use light or extra light dry malt extract and choose your specialty malts on the lighter side as well. If your doing all grain, then as mentioned, using Pale malts with some light crystal malts would work.
stevemwazup
If your brewing with extract, then you would want to use light or extra light dry malt extract and choose your specialty malts on the lighter side as well. If your doing all grain, then as mentioned, using Pale malts with some light crystal malts would work.
stevemwazup
HoosierDanny said:
Oh that's easy:
Build a callandria or a steam jacketed brew kettle.
But why? I mean what is the blond going to do for you?
But if you just want to give a blond a shot for the shits and grins of it, you will need to add calcium to balance the alkalinity beyond what the malted grains will.