Bottling Green Beer

[Motoxboi26]

So I have a question about when to add color to beer for bottling. I am doing a marketing thing for work and they want me to bottle green beer as a give away. Not exactly sure when in my brewing process I should add the color..to the boil, to secondary, just before bottling. Looking for some thoughts on this since I've never put additional color in a beer except when its poured.

 

[CodeSection]

Interesting. My guess is you will be brewing a very light blonde or cream ale...something very light. Even though it is light in SRM, there is still some yellow in it. Thus, you would have to experiment with a sample when you are just about to bottle to determine of how much food dye (green, blue or perhaps both) is needed to achieve your color that you want. Once you have determined the color and how much of what was added to your sample, then scale the dye to your bottling batch.

Good luck and post pics!

 

[day_trippr]

Definitely wait until packaging, and ^that^ is a good empirically-driven approach...

Cheers!

 

[Jtvann]

Definitely wait until packaging, and ^that^ is a good empirically-driven approach...

Cheers!

I like it. Im curious myself and I have the perfect base beer to give it an empirical try for you.

.... stand by

 

[Jtvann]

The base ...

 

[Jtvann]

3 drops of green did little to nothing, so this is 6 drops of green

 

[Jtvann]

Whoa, blue addition is where it's at. I thought I immediately over did it. Went straight in with 3 drops of blue.

Ratio is 2:1 green to blue.

Problem solved

 

[Jtvann]

Sorry its half way gone ... this is supposed to be empirical testing. I need to compare apples to apples. Here's a regular shot without back lighting.

So this is a 22oz glass. For a regular 12 oz bottle, if it were me, I'd do 2 drops of green and 1 blue directly in the bottle just before capping.

 

[khannon]

1. Wow did I look at the wrong thread... I was thinking acetaladahyde etc..
2. Forgetting apples...
3. What a pic..WOW.. even my color-blind self can appreciate that.