Food Coloring?
 

Has anyone here ever added food coloring to a wine that didin't have a
palatable color? i am thinking of adding red color to my watermelon
wine when it is finished. Is that cheating? Do commercial wines have
artificial color in them? maybe the cheaper wines do?

Food Coloring?
 

I have added food coloring when I decanter the wine for drinking. a drop
of color can enhance or give a festive color to your wine. I have never
used food coloring prior to bottling.
I have never noticed any taste change when I've added Green for St.
Patricks' day, or yellow to enhance a chard. I did have few want the red
dyed wine at halloween, looked too much like blood. :*) The orange was
more acceptable.
DAve

mdginzo wrote:
> Has anyone here ever added food coloring to a wine that didin't have a
> palatable color? i am thinking of adding red color to my watermelon
> wine when it is finished. Is that cheating? Do commercial wines have
> artificial color in them? maybe the cheaper wines do?
>

Food Coloring?
 

Terry Garey, author of the Joy of Home Winemaking, dyes her mint wine
green :) I put some blueberries in my lavender wine to make it purple.
Wine's supposed to look nice, so I don't think food color is cheating.
I never read the labels on any cheap wines, but sometimes when I look
at them I'm sure that they put some red in their strawberry cause when
I make strawberry it comes out light pink or pink-straw colored.

Food Coloring?
 

PIWINE sells a grape skin color. I've used it in light colored red wines
and to touch up the color in a blush. Works well. Cheating isn't a term I
use with wine making. We add all types of things to our grape juice in
order to make the best wine possible.

Bill Frazier
Olathe, Kansas USA

"mdginzo" > wrote in message
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> Has anyone here ever added food coloring to a wine that didin't have a
> palatable color? i am thinking of adding red color to my watermelon
> wine when it is finished. Is that cheating? Do commercial wines have
> artificial color in them? maybe the cheaper wines do?
>

Food Coloring?
 

I kinda of wish I had before bottling a peach wine that looks a lot
like a certain yellow liquid that people do not normally drink.

Food Coloring?
 

So if i am going to add color to a wine, do I need to take into
consideration the color that the wine in at the moment? If I have a
yellow wine that I want to look green for example, do I add green food
coloring or blue?

Food Coloring?
 

Yeah you need to take into consideration the wines current color. You
will not get a red wine to look blue for instance.

You oculd add red or green. Depending on what depth of color you want
or which particular shade.

Food Coloring?
 

I have never don it but would not consider it cheating unless you tried to
hide the fact and pretend you did not do it. I suspect that most food
colors will fade with time but, though adding color has been discussed
before, no one who did it has ever come back to say if it was a long term
fix. Try it and let us know. I don't think it will hurt anything..

Ray

"mdginzo" > wrote in message
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> Has anyone here ever added food coloring to a wine that didin't have a
> palatable color? i am thinking of adding red color to my watermelon
> wine when it is finished. Is that cheating? Do commercial wines have
> artificial color in them? maybe the cheaper wines do?
>

Food Coloring?
 

"mdginzo" > wrote in message
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> Has anyone here ever added food coloring to a wine that didin't have a
> palatable color? i am thinking of adding red color to my watermelon
> wine when it is finished. Is that cheating? Do commercial wines have
> artificial color in them? maybe the cheaper wines do?

How is the watermelon wine coming along? I tried this year, but even though
I used only the red part of the watermelon it came out tasting like the
rind.

Food Coloring?
 

As already noted, yes you would. Another thing to consider is that some
food colorings are pH dependent, and might change in the acid
environment of wine.
I recently tried to color an acidic soap mixture with green good color,
and was surprised to get an orangish yellow instead. If I added more
soap (alkali), the green returned.

You can always turn a red wine bluish green by adding a base, like
bicarb, but of course the wine tastes terrible at those pH's. It seem
the anthocyanins in wine are a lot like litmus.

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Food Coloring?
 

Well, I spent $5 on a half gallon of watermelon juice, starined out the
pulp and added a half gallon of water. IT is blurping right along
nicely and still doesn't smell bad. I used turbo yeast so I think it
will ferment before it goes bad. It's color isn't great - sort of a
murky, grau, pinkish. But I have to see when it clears.

Food Coloring?
 

"mdginzo" > wrote in message
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> Well, I spent $5 on a half gallon of watermelon juice, starined out the
> pulp and added a half gallon of water. IT is blurping right along
> nicely and still doesn't smell bad. I used turbo yeast so I think it
> will ferment before it goes bad. It's color isn't great - sort of a
> murky, grau, pinkish. But I have to see when it clears.

That is how mine was and it cleared to lightly tinted clear yellow liquid.
That is when it started to turn bad tasting and smelling.

Food Coloring?
 

i did that with soap too, tried to dye it blue, turned pink. I know
this isn't on topic but where did you get your soapmaking supplies?
Can't find Red Devil Lye anywhere anymore.

Food Coloring?
 

mdginzo wrote:
>
> Has anyone here ever added food coloring to a wine that didin't have a
> palatable color? i am thinking of adding red color to my watermelon
> wine when it is finished. Is that cheating? Do commercial wines have
> artificial color in them? maybe the cheaper wines do?

Since you mention watermelon wine, here's a picture of a bottle of mine
that I made. The darker red one is strawberry.
No food coloring added, but the strawberry was kind of flavorless so it
did get a little strawberry darquiry mix put in it which darkened it
some
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nt234/wine.jpg

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