green ez-cap / 16 oz grolsch type bottles

I've picked up a couple of cases through yard sales only and paid as much as

Wild

I'd use amber.

As far as I understand it, you really should not use green glass bottles. The reason is that the color green does not filter out the UV rays that make beer go skunky. Blue and amber bottles do filter out these rays. I guess that is why you found these colors available, but not green.

Thanks,

Well you could always store the full bottles in a closed box. Thats what I do with all bottles. Plus I use a LOT of clear bottles.

BTW, I have heard that even the blue and amber allow UV light at your beer.

Steve

From worst to best: Clear Green Blue Amber Brown Clay/Porcelain

But it's all relative. My beer doesn't even see indirect light until its time to chill and that's very brief.

Wild

Color of bottle and the resulting quality aside, if you really want the green bottles, you can always buy the Grolsch bottles and get replacement swingtops which are unprinted from various online suppliers such as Williams Brewing etc.

That one fits the Grolsch bottles but it's going to get expensive. I have taken to bottling in clear glass myself as it allows me to see the interior of the bottles at a glance during cleaning. I don't worry about the light because after bottling, they go straight into the case which is then closed and put on the shelf in the basement until they're needed. My bar fridge light has burnt out long ago and the bar itself is in the basemsent with no windows, and is lit via LEDs which produce next to no UV light anyway. As far as I can tell, the only UV light my beer sees occurs while the barley and hops are still growing in the fields.

VK