17 SRM Beer Example, per Brewer's Friend

[Rob2010SS]

Super picky question - I know.

Those of you who use Brewers Friend for recipes, do any of you have a picture of a beer in which your SRM was 17?

I am terrible with relating the SRM color examples back to real beers. I'm developing a marzen recipe and I wanted a tad darker than Sam Adams Octoberfest. Sam Adams' website says their Octoberfest is 20 SRM. 20 on Brewers Friend is pretty black so I think that's too dark.

The max color rating for the BJCP guidelines is 17 and I brought my recipe up to that point and I'm just trying to get a picture of what that looks like in real life.

 

[Jag75]

I would think that programs out there should be relatively the same since its based off grain . My Grainfather app is in EBC. my Oktoberfest was 16.4 ebc which is 8.3 srm I believe. So yeah , I'd say 20 srm is pretty dark. Do you mean ebc or srm?

 

[Rob2010SS]

I'm referring to SRM. Sam adams website refers to SRM as well, see below...

And brewers friend uses SRM. But 20 SRM on brewers friend is dark. And as a matter of fact, that's what my brown ale comes out as on brewers friend, see below...

I have seen other threads on here in regards to how color differs going from beersmith to brewers friend so it's not far fetched.

I just would like to know what an actual 17 on brewers friend looks like. Or if someone has a 13 or 14 ill take that too.

Again, I know it's a super pain in the ass question but figured it couldn't hurt.

 

[Jag75]

I'm sure someone will post something. That does look a lil dark to me as well for an Oktoberfest.