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Offline dcb

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Re: New to Forum (Why are my brews so dark??) HELP!
« Reply #30 on: October 29, 2014, 08:16:15 am »
If your water ph were high enough to extract tannins sufficient to color the beer to that level, I'd expect to be able to taste that, but you report that the beer tastes good.   So, maybe my assumption about being able to taste that level of tannins is incorrect?  The only time I tasted tannins in a homebrew, the beer had been served in one of those red plastic traveller cups, so I couldn't see the color.   

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Re: New to Forum (Why are my brews so dark??) HELP!
« Reply #31 on: October 29, 2014, 08:25:31 am »
tannins can bind with certain phenols and clump causing darkening due to refraction. just like yeast.
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