Colour of bottles you use

[Spooneys regular]

I've always used bottles I've saved to use in my own brews. Recently I've used a few St Peters green bottles and I don't know if I'm just being paranoid but the green bottles appear to have a little more sediment and a very slight twang compared to the brown ones

[Caddarn]

I've got a Wherry in the bottle at the moment. I used a mix of brown and clear bottles and the taste of the brew in the brown bottles is far superior to that in the clear... no idea why but perhaps someone can enlighten us?

[BeerEagle]

Apparently UV light can cause some hop compounds to go musty. It's known as skunking in some circles.

Brown glass prevents the UV getting at the beer. Green and clear do not.

So if you're going to bottle in green or clear, keep the bottles in the dark.

Commercial brews get round this by stabilising the beers in some way.

[Stomach]

Apparently UV light can cause some hop compounds to go musty. It's known as skunking in some circles.

Brown glass prevents the UV getting at the beer. Green and clear do not.

So if you're going to bottle in green or clear, keep the bottles in the dark.

Commercial brews get round this by stabilising the beers in some way.

Plus 1 to that!

[TC2642]

Brown is best, for the reasons BeerEagle stated.

[rootsbrew]

You should store the bottles somewhere dark, cool and still.

Unless the bottles are somewhere that has a lot of light - like a shelf in a shop or a window sill, the colour of your bottles shouldn't make any difference.

[HantsBrewer]

I use a mixture of Brown, Green, and White. I store the bottles in my garage, which receives very little light.
I've never had a problem with skunking, although as an aside I've noticed that in the large Innis & Gunn bottles that I use, the yeast tends to cling-on to the sides of the bottle, and I need to give it a bit of a shake to free it.

[Rookie]

Apparently UV light can cause some hop compounds to go musty. It's known as skunking in some circles.

Brown glass prevents the UV getting at the beer. Green and clear do not.

So if you're going to bottle in green or clear, keep the bottles in the dark.



Commercial brews get round this by stabilising the beers in some way.

Even brown ottles will skunk if left in the light long enough.
They process the hops in a way that removes the part that skunks.

[parkerwitton]

I use a mixture of Brown, Green, and White. I store the bottles in my garage, which receives very little light.
I've never had a problem with skunking, although as an aside I've noticed that in the large Innis & Gunn bottles that I use, the yeast tends to cling-on to the sides of the bottle, and I need to give it a bit of a shake to free it.

Where do you get white bottles or do you mean clear???

[BeerEagle]

I use a mixture of Brown, Green, and White. I store the bottles in my garage, which receives very little light.
I've never had a problem with skunking, although as an aside I've noticed that in the large Innis & Gunn bottles that I use, the yeast tends to cling-on to the sides of the bottle, and I need to give it a bit of a shake to free it.

Where do you get white bottles or do you mean clear???

Picky!