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green beer bottles okay?
Question:
Darker bottles better? Anyone ever found a brown carboy? Makes me glad that I ferment in plastic pails 
Where do people keep their carboys? In the dark I assume. I would think that a closet with clear bottles and carboys would be optimal since you can keep it dark but still see everything that’s going on inside. Photographers with darkrooms are all set! — Dana ///
Response:
Dear homebrewers, Most homebrew manuals suggest using brown-glass beer bottles to bottle your brew. What about green-glass bottles? Are they okay? If not, how does the difference in color affect the storage of beer? I appreciate any responses! HN
Response:
Most homebrew manuals suggest using brown-glass beer bottles to bottle your brew. What about green-glass bottles? Are they okay? If not, how does the difference in color affect the storage of beer? I appreciate any responses!
Well, if you are like me and store your homebrew in cardboard boxes with lids, down in the cool basement, it doesn’t matter what kind of bottles you use. OTOH, if you keep them exposed to light long-term, the darker the bottle the better. Basically, I use a mixture of green, clear, brown, and others (I have some funky ceramic bottles and black bottles too). For competitions, they generally require standard 12 oz. brown beer bottles. John DeCarlo, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA–My views are my own
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— Dear homebrewers, Most homebrew manuals suggest using brown-glass beer bottles to bottle your brew. What about green-glass bottles? Are they okay? If not, how does the difference in color affect the storage of beer? I appreciate any responses! HN
Some green bottles let in a little more light than brown ones, but if they are in a case, this does not matter at all. My guess is that the reason they suggest brown bottles is that they are (usually) a little easier to acquire and probably cost less. If you have a source of green bottles (free from a bar maybe??), go ahead and use them. Greg Richter
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Most homebrew manuals suggest using brown-glass beer bottles to bottle your brew. What about green-glass bottles? Are they okay? If not, how does the difference in color affect the storage of beer? I appreciate any responses!
Green bottle are bad, bad, bad. I mean really bad. On a scale of 1 to 10, they suck. They’re not good. No sir, I don’t like ‘em. Death and destruction are better. Green bottles are the leading cause of famine, disease, rape, natural disasters, inflation, spam, racism, and smog in the western hemisphere. If there were no green bottles, and we all had to eat live cockroaches every day, the world would be a better place. Is any of this getting through? I’m trying to convince you not to use green bottles. Green bottles = more contact with light = mercaptans = skunked beer = BAD. If you live in a cave with no lights, and plan on drinking your beer in the dark, then it doesn’t really matter. If you even want to show your beer a picture of the sun, go with brown. Honestly, it’s amazing how fast good beer can turn to swill when light hits it. If you’ve got some opaque black bottles, use them instead. — Phone: 512-838-7034 | Tie Line: 678-7034 | VIDAS Support SIGSEGVs, SIGSEGVs, roly-poly SIGSEGVs; SIGSEGVs, SIGSEGVs, eat them up–yum!