[Joe Sr.]

Photos have to be hosted off-site.

I use photobucket.  Cut and paste a link and Bob's your uncle.

[ewpert]

Here's a photo:

Pale on left, IPA on right :


http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx347/ewpert/Beers1_zps30ed71b4.png

[klickitat jim]

Obviously we can't say for sure, but to me it looks like the one on the left just has more yeast in suspension. I would guess that the IPA either is getting a slower start or is ahead of the pale in flocculation. Is there a difference in amount of yeast cake on the bottom?

[Slowbrew]

I might be seeing an optical illusion but the carboy on the left seems to be taller and narrower than the one on the right.  Between the more narrow cylinder on the left and the greater quantity of hops on the right you can account for most of the color difference.  The real test will be in the glass.

Paul

[morticaixavier]

A couple things, it looks like Slowbrew is right, the lighter color brew is in a narrower carboy and also closer to your light source. The darker brew appears to be in shadow. Also the darker has the carpet behind it while the lighter has the wall and heater register. Add to that the brew hauler that is also black and there are a lot of things that could be making the darker one look darker.

[morticaixavier]

also, to add a picture click the little mona lisa icon above

and the tags [ img][ /img] will appear (without the error I introduced to make them appear here).

Right click the image in your photo bucket and select Copy. then paste that between the two tags

[hopfenundmalz]

Yeast strain can have an influence here. There was a talk at the 2003 NHC, where the same wort was split from a small brewery to make about 18 beers using all of the available commercial Belgian yeasts and some cultured from bottles brought back from Belgium. There was a surprising range of color in the finished beer.

Same yeasts for these?

[ewpert]

UPDATE:

Day 2 of fermentation....beers have definitely started to take on more of the same color characteristics.  Seems that perhaps the yeast suspension may have been the biggest factor here.  Although both of us used the exact same yeast with starters, perhaps one beer just had a much faster start on the fermentation.

Will post pics of the finished products, side by side for final comparison for anyone that's interested!

[dkfick]

Amount of break material transferred from kettle to fermenter could also have possibly been a cause.

[thirsty]

Different yeast can affect the color? Huh. I never would have guessed that.

[hopfenundmalz]

Different yeast can affect the color? Huh. I never would have guessed that.

I would not of thought that either, until I saw that talk.