EBC\text{EBC}

European Brewery Convention

Beer colourexact by definition

The European Brewery Convention colour unit is exactly 1/1.97 of an SRM unit, measuring the same 430 nm absorbance with a different multiplier. Continental and British recipes are written in EBC, and a pale lager sits near 4–8 EBC.

Watch out: EBC numbers are roughly double the SRM figure for the same beer, so a recipe quoting "12" means a pale amber if it is SRM and a straw pilsner if it is EBC. The scale is almost never stated on a recipe that assumes its own audience.

1 EBC\text{EBC} 0.50761421 SRM\text{SRM}

One european brewery convention in every beer colour unit

0.507614Standard Reference Method (SRM)
1European Brewery Convention (EBC)this unit
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