The Kernel - Rusty Orange IPA

[farmer brown]

Hey All,
I have a question regarding colouring? I've been sampling some IPA's by the Kernal brewery in London this weekend and was very impressed with the colour (as well as flavour), its a kind of rusty orange/brown. Would anybody know how this is accomplished? Ive been using Pale & Crystal so my IPS's are a more brown that a nice rusty orange colour... Any help much appreciated!

 

[RobWalker]

lighter speciality malts. they come in various shades so you can use more with less darkening. Brewer's Caramel is a pure colour additive too.

I'd suggest checking out Caragold/carared/caramalt for nice colouring!

 

[Dunfie]

You can get reddish colours by using small amounts of roast barley and black malts (around 80g per 23l brewlength). Also using melanoidin malt gives an orange/red hue through the beer (as well as adding body).

Its just a case of experimenting. :

 

[farmer brown]

Many thanks, I do have some roasted barley and brewers caramel so Ill give that a try.. Going to order some melanoidin now.
Thanks!

 

[Swazi]

I would try 80% pale malt and 20% munich malt. I think that Evin isn't a fan of crystal malts so avoid them.

 

[farmer brown]

I'll give that a try thanks. I also bought some melanoidin malt so would I mix this 80/20 with Pale malt also?

 

[zgoda]

I'll give that a try thanks. I also bought some melanoidin malt so would I mix this 80/20 with Pale malt also?

Easy on this. This malt has very strong flavour, may be unpleasantly grassy or grainy/husky. It's sometimes called "turbo munich" or "munich on steroids". I'd stick with ~10% or even less.

For colouring choc/black or roast barley is far better. Or even E150 caramel colorant.

 

[farmer brown]

Huumm, I do have some roasted Barley and chocolate malt so maybe Ill try that first at 10% ? So what is melanoidin malt used for? Ill stick to low doses thanks !

 

[zgoda]

Some say it mimics the effect of decoction mashing, adds bready character. I tried both methods and i'd say it's close but not true.

 

[farmer brown]

decoction mashing:

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index. ... ction_mash

Interesting stuff, thanks again for the help.. Im going to make a start this weeekend!

 

[Hawks]

I find small amounts of chocolate malt add a nice colour and not too much roasty flavours - you could add later in mash or maybe cold steep if you wanted less flavour from it, but I enjoy what it adds