Bottles

"Jim Baird" a écrit dans le message de news:Lo7La.194985$ snipped-for-privacy@twister.tampabay.rr.com...

The problem with Corona botles is that they are clear. Clear glass let pass sunligth and neon ligth who both are responsible of skunky beers. You have the same problem with green bottles. Brown or deep blue bottles are Ok. What happens (if i remember corectly) is that some ligth wavelength break a protein in the hops and this produce a new molecule that is verry similar to the one in skunk odor.

Just a few molecule are enough to ruin a beer so even short exposition to direct sunligth or neon litning (like in some stores) are damagable. I heard that some type of beers don't have this problem because the hop have been treated in a certain way but this option is not avalable to homebrewers.

Beside that, if you take great care of leaving your bottles in the dark at all times, i don't see any other problems but people who had tryed it may give further answers.

Absolutely. I use them all the time. One advantage of using a clear bottle is that you can see the color and clarity of the beer before you open it. There is, of course, the disadvantage of the possibility of skunking the beer if you put it out in sunlight. However I always keep my beer in the dark, and I have never experienced any skunkiness. Keep it dark and you'll be fine.

All light has the potential to skunk beer. Sunlight light will do it the fastest, then neon, then incandescent light. I have some beautiful antique clear bottles and some clear French swing-top bottles that lemonade came in. I use them all the time, but keep them away from ALL light.

Michael