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What is the name of the industrial dye that many alcohol companies use to make the brown color of scotch?

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It's usually caramel coloring — listed on labels as "caramel color" or E150 (E150a/b/c/d). Distillers add small amounts of caramel (made by heating sugars, sometimes with ammonia/sulfites) to standardize the brown color; some whiskies explicitly state "no added coloring" if they don't use it.