Brew color control

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I have seen commercial brews before with pretty outstanding colors, such as Alesmith's my bloody valentine and Bid Dogs Hop Harvest, the former being a brilliant red and the latter being a crazy burnt orange color? Anyone know how to achieve such things? Thanks
 
Study up on your Malt lovibond ratings and read heavily on the color descriptors websites give for various malts. For example; CaraRed gives a pretty good indicator of the color it can impart.

Finally, take all of that and plug it into a Brewing software and you'll get a reasonable approximation if it doesn't go FUBAR in the kettle from too much Maillard reactions.

Savvy!
 
Also you'll need to go AG, most people don't have much luck controlling color with extract.
 

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