Mixed up my malt additions

[choochoobacca]

Hello folks,

So yesterday I brewed my 2nd ever batch, the jawbreaker wheat pale ale kit from Midwest. Everything went well except for one thing. I added my LME when I was supposed to add the DME (start of boil, 60 min) and vice versa ( added DME at 15min, instead of 60 min). Yeah, yeah, rookie mistake, I know!

Here's the thing, I've read enough around here to know not to worry too much. DWRAHAHB, right? However, what kind of differences can I expect from this change in the final product? I'm just curious more than anything. My boil size was 2.5 gal and I topped up to 5 gallons.

Here's a link the the instructions from Midwest, in case anyone is interested in the details:

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/media/downloads/498/Jawbreaker_Pale_Wheat_Instructions.pdf

Everything else on brew day was spot on and my SG was the the expected 1.052. Thanks for reading and any comments are appreciated!

 

[Yooper]

LME tends to darken when boiled a long time, so the beer will be a shade or two or three darker than intended. That's about it.

 

[fatnoah]

The only difference you might notice is in the hop utilization. If you put most of the fermentables in firts you'll get a slightly lower hop utilization because you have a higher preboil gravity. But the reality is that this beer will probably turn out fine.


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[choochoobacca]

LME tends to darken when boiled a long time, so the beer will be a shade or two or three darker than intended. That's about it.

Thanks, I had noticed that it was significantly darker than what I was expecting. I hadn't realized why, though

The only difference you might notice is in the hop utilization. If you put most of the fermentables in firts you'll get a slightly lower hop utilization because you have a higher preboil gravity. But the reality is that this beer will probably turn out fine.

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Interesting, I didn't realize that was the case. Thanks for that!