Food dye

[ayrerperformance]

Will adding food dye affect bottle conditioning? Meaning, will the bottles still carb?

 

[agrazela]

What exactly would you be adding, synthetic (e.g., FDC Red #40) or natural (e.g., beet juice)? And where in the process?

(I wouldn't expect much effect either way, but natural colors would run a far greater risk of things like: settling out, protein interactions, immiscibility, pH changes, not coming out the color you expected because of pH, etc. FDC colors are basically inert, and would be used at far, far lower levels)

 

[ayrerperformance]

Synthetic. Like food dye. And I was thinking at bottling.

 

[agrazela]

OK, yeah I would not expect any problems.

 

[kh54s10]

I would not expect any problems. I was trying to make a Romulan Ale and dye it bright blue. It cannot be done. Any blue in the amber beer turns green!

 

[agrazela]

I would not expect any problems. I was trying to make a Romulan Ale and dye it bright blue. It cannot be done. Any blue in the amber beer turns green!

You might try FDC Blue Lake color. With Lake colors the dye is adsorbed onto titanium dioxide so that it shows better in a darker medium rather than combining so much with the background color.

 

[kh54s10]

You might try FDC Blue Lake color. With Lake colors the dye is adsorbed onto titanium dioxide so that it shows better in a darker medium rather than combining so much with the background color.

Will give it a look.