2006-12-23 14:01:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Light (not just UV) destroys the delicate oils and aromatics from the hops. Exposing the beer to light is how it "skunks" or acquires that nasty skunky smell. Beer in clear bottles should be avoided. Green is a little better at filtering out light, but brown is best...short of simply opaque (like a can). Where a lot of people look down on cans due to the metallic taste they say they impart, an overwhelming majority cannot taste it once the beer's been poured into a glass.
Companies such as Miller, who sell their beer in clear bottles, claim that they've removed the portion of the hops that reacts to light and therefore are safe from this sort of degradation. I'm not sure I buy into that.
2006-12-23 19:41:48 · answer #1 · answered by Trid 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am no brewmaster but most good beer is in green and brown bottles to cover it from the sunlight which will affect taste.
2006-12-23 23:03:05 · answer #2 · answered by berta44 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To help protect it from UV rays. Clear glass has no such protection.
2006-12-23 23:07:05 · answer #3 · answered by Mollie's Daddy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To protect it from UV radiations, they can be brown or green!
2006-12-24 15:56:17 · answer #4 · answered by arun d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dang, I wanted to be the cool one who knew the answer! haha, yep, they are right on the money about it protecting it from going bad in the sunlight.
2006-12-24 01:06:33 · answer #5 · answered by RubyRed 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋