Brewing Green Beer

[McAbrew]

I have only brewed a few batches, but my wife wants me to brew a green batch of beer for Saint Patricks Day.

Does anyone have a recipe or suggestions?

 

[BrokenDog]

Any basic pale ale with green food coloring would work just fine. I would recommend only adding the coloring on a glass by glass basis at the time of serving, you wouldn't want to be drinking green beer in the middle of may.

 

[Revvy]

1) Brew a true Irish beer for St. Paddy's Day. Like a stout.

2) Buy a case of your favorite cheap beer, and a bottle of green food coloring.

3)On St. Paddy's day, forget about the stuff in step 2 and drink the stout.

4) Repeat step 3. If you run out MAYBE drink some of the swill.

5) Use any of the leftover cheap beer to water the compost, and the green food coloring for dying eggs for Easter.

 

[cinderbike]

I was thinking of making a beer with herbs to get the coloring, but don't know how that would taste.

 

[BrokenDog]

1) Brew a true Irish beer for St. Paddy's Day. Like a stout.

2) Buy a case of your favorite cheap beer, and a bottle of green food coloring.

3)On St. Paddy's day, forget about the stuff in step 2 and drink the stout.

4) Repeat step 3. If you run out MAYBE drink some of the swill.

5) Use any of the leftover cheap beer to water the compost, and the green food coloring for dying eggs for Easter.

I retract my suggestion, I like yours better.

 

[Kegcowboy]

Interesting - we should make it a scavenger hunt to see who can find the recipe that will make green homebrew beer!

 

[McAbrew]

Made a green beer for St. Pattys Day. I hadded 2 teaspoons of Green Food Coloring in with my Priming Sugar and boiled it for 7 minutes before adding it the 5 gallons of beer at bottling time. I thought this would turn my bottling bucket green, but it cleaned up well and the Green Beer tatsted great and looked good coming out of the bottle.

 

[Corner_House]

green beer always sounds like a great idea, until your puking up green beer later that night. ask me how i know