ScottyC
Active Member
This weekend I brewed a Grapefruit IPA -- a dry beer with amarillo, cascade, simcoe, and citra hops. I wanted to give this a beer PINK color. My thought was something like Magic Hat Wacko -- a very clear, light pinkish/red color (but with more flavor). Magic Hat says they use beet juice. I got 2 cans of sliced beets, poured in the liquid from these cans, and boiled for about 45 minutes. Initially, it looked like it was going to be a peachy color, but by the end of the boil those red tones were gone. My guess is that the dye from the beets is hydrophobic, because the lupulin glands were stained black...
So this beer's in primary right now and probably at about 3-4 SRM -- pale straw. Does anyone have any recommendations for what I could throw in to secondary that would give me a pink color but compliment the "grapefruit" flavor? Thanks!
So this beer's in primary right now and probably at about 3-4 SRM -- pale straw. Does anyone have any recommendations for what I could throw in to secondary that would give me a pink color but compliment the "grapefruit" flavor? Thanks!