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Morning All, Can anyone tell me how to add a deep ruby colour to my ale (AG). I am in the process of designing a nice deep ale, and I'm trying to achieve a similar ruby red colour as seen in the likes of Hobgoblin. Any thoughts? Cheers p.s. food colouring is out! Only natural beers here! ;)

Tubby - you were bang on! It tastes good! Must leave - must condition (repeat until beer has gone....) :whistle: Did a second brew a few days later based on Summer Lightning, all done by the book ,sparge et al. Just put it into my new corny keg tonight, v exciting. Photos to follow in a few...

Thanks for all your words of encouragement lads. Beer has been going about a week now (3 days conditioning) and my impatience got the better of me, and I poured this!! :mrgreen: In my eyes, a thing of beauty.... Colour: check! Head: check! (but not poured as well as it couldbe ;) ) Taste...

:lol: Loving every second already

Thanks for all the positive feedback - feeling much better about it now! Cheers :cheers:

Cheers Tubby! I'll cross my fingers and see how it goes, I've always got the 5 gallons of Muntons Smugglers thats conditioning! ;)

I bought a corny keg and stuck it in a kegerator. Drill and fit a tap and you have a proper pump dispensing chilled beer! :drink: Perfect for lager :thumb: Not mine but something like this -> http://oak.ucc.nau.edu/bjh39/kegerator.htm

Hello, Made my first AG brew yesterday but I'm now having some doubts as to whether I've done a few things wrong and what the results will be! During the mashing stage all was going well but I may have forgotten to turn off the element for a short time :oops: Temp went up to around 75C but I...