Color reference?

[emmjr]

A while back I had read that you could take a Micheloeb Special Dark beer and with precise dilutions get a reasonable example of certain colors on the ° Lovibond scale ( close to SRM). I believe special dark has been discontinued, at least in my area. Does anyone know of another way to compare the color of my finished brew to a known color? I've searched the rest of the threads but maybe I'm just not using the right keywords.

[steveh]

Check out some of these links as reference:

http://www.cis.rit.edu/fairchild/lovibond.html
http://www.beercolor.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Beer_color
http://beerrecipes.org/beercolor.php
http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2008/04/29/beer-color-understanding-srm-lovibond-and-ebc/
http://www.thebrewsite.com/2005/01/04/beer_color_chart.php

Some cool stuff out there! Probably easier than mixing & matching separate beers.

S.

[emmjr]

Thanks alot, these really help. I guess a "color wheel" is alot easier to use than diluting and keeping samples around. I use beersmith so it gives me a good estimate but I've been trying to brew within style guidelines (just to see if I can do it) and it's interesting to see the correlation between estimates and "real" color.
-E.