A. J. deLange on Predicting Beer Color from SRM

HOMEBREW Digest #3234 Fri 28 January 2000: “There are probably dozens of ways to do this but the following will give you a color that is very close to a real beer color – in fact it will give you something like the average color for a beer with a particular SRM based on the sample of about 65 beers I measured. Remember that SRM is a fair predictor of beer lightness/darkness but not a good predictor of beer color. I’ll give the formulas and then in brackets, […], the values for a beer of SRM 10.”