my quest for the (near) perfect rainbow!

[Mr and Mrs luvpie]

so far i have

red - strawberry vodka and also tea wine
orange - medlar wine
yellow - lemon hooch
green - kiwi (ok very light but shhh)
blue - ?
indigo - ?
violet - ?

or i could use the kids rainbow
red - as above
yellow
pink - i've seen a nice pink in a blueberry wine but waiting to see the end colour of that
green
purple
orange
blue

either way i am stuck on blue and purple i was thinking ribena but what colour does that end up and blackberry, but that was a very dark red rather than purple

so come on what can i do to make my wine rack for the autumn look like a lovely rainbow????

[MKG]

All purpley-blue fruits turn out to be red. I think the entire blue range (purple/indigo/violet) will mean having to resort to food dyes, and there's nothing too wrong with that as a you have a clear object in mind. I suspect however (something I forgot to put in the beetroot wine thread) that artificially-coloured wines will lose their colour over a period of storage. Beetroot loses its red and turns a lovely golden colour after a couple of years.

Maybe if you experiment to achieve just the right colour and note down the results, you could colour normal wines at the point of drinking?

Mike

[boboff]

Could you not cheat on the harder ones, and use coloured glass bottles, Green would be sorted then, and I am sure I have seen blue.

If you use freeze dried beetroot as a coloring it should stay red, and also not be "artificial"

[Mr and Mrs luvpie]

mike i doubt it will hang around long enough to fade :D :D :D

i was thinking last night that i may have to resort to food dye, but have plenty of that as the boys love blue cake :D

I'm just glad that seems to be the answer and not that i had forgotten a really obvious flavour to get the purples (although i think i will go kids version and have pink in the rainbow this year)

is it wrong to plan your homebrew by colours to brighten a dull winters day?

[MKG]

It's YOUR homebrew. If you made it from minced fairies and coloured it khaki, that's entirely up to you.

Mike

[Davie Crockett]

Cheating a bit I know, but I recently heard about Skittles Vodka. Put a handful of your desired colour into a bottle of vodka and shake vigorously until the colour coating has transferred to the vodka, remove the sweets and voila! multi coloured drinks.

out of interest, I've just googled this drink and they recommend completely dissolving the sweets, but this will leave some residue which will need to be removed. site here: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/msbrackenrid ... ng_random/

[greenorelse]

Borage flowers? We have a huge patch at the moment (they're like weeds) and they are beautifully blue as well as being edible.

[kit-e-kate]

Could you not cheat on the harder ones, and use coloured glass bottles, Green would be sorted then, and I am sure I have seen blue.

Blue glass is typically used for poison. That may send out the wrong kind of message....

[MKG]

Blue glass is also used for gin.

Oh, hang on ... you're right

Mike