You’ve probably heard a friend say: “I can’t drink dark beer. It’s too strong for me.” But does a beer’s pigment have anything to do with alcohol content, or even its density? As most beer savants and ...

The human eye detects differences in beer color that are missed by equipment currently used in breweries, according to brewing expert Charles Bamforth of the University of California, Davis. Brewers ...

From a pale ale to an imperial stout, beer comes in a panoply of colors. Stout is dark, for example, because it is made with roasted malt or barley, whereas pale ale gets its lighter color from the ...

The color of beer run the whole gamut from colorless to almost black. We have red beers—think Irish Red or other amber style beers—and white beers. In the latter case, however, we are usually talking ...

Off Color Brewing, which makes some of Chicago’s boldest and most creative beer, is putting some of it in a uniquely small package: 250-milliliter bottles. Compared with the 12- and 16-ounce bottles ...