# Green beer bottles? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 19, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-beer-bottles/353357 "2006-04-19T20:47:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-beer-bottles/353357/21 "2006-04-20T18:59:40Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > Assuming, of course, that you get it fresh. Throw it on a freighter churning across the Atlantic and then trucked across 2000 km to a badly built freezer unit and we’ll see how that goes. This is the big deal. I don’t care WHAT you bottle your beer in; if it sits in said bottle for 10 months, it’s going to be skunky. Which is why I largely stick to local microbrews: I can walk into any old bar or even grocery store and pick up a Shiner Bock or Saint Arnold Brown Ale that was bottled 12 days ago and refrigerated continuously since. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-beer-bottles/353357/22 "2006-04-20T20:44:33Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > One can only assume that some manufacturers (I hesitate to use the term ‘brewer’ for any concoction named in this thread) _want_ their product to be skunky. I had a correspondence with a marketing vice-president from [Lowenbrau](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=194192) about how, no matter where I bought the beer, it was always skunky. Instead of at very least giving me a line of bullshit about how he would look into their dating & delivery practices or saying anything to appease me, he basically told me I was f\*cked in the head, that Lowenbrau was never skunky, that perhaps my palate was that of a neanderthal and I didn’t know what good beer was supposed to taste like which is why I thought their beer was bad, blah, blah, blah. :mad: I couldn’t believe the attitude of this guy. I was already pissed at the stores that were selling this tripe, but this guy insults me on top of it? I’ve NEVER drank Lowenbrau since, and at one time 80% of the beer I consumed was Lowenbrau. Seems to me after Miller lost the license to make it, it turned to shit. (strange, as I don’t like anything else Miller makes.) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-beer-bottles/353357/23 "2006-04-20T21:04:24Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > The only green-bottled beer I drink with any regularity is Heineken… [FRANK BOOTH] \*HEINEKIN ! ? ! ? Fuck that’s shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!!! \* [/FRANK BOOTH] I can’t believe I got to use that line!!! ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-beer-bottles/353357/24 "2006-04-20T22:16:17Z")
> [@Cagey Drifter](#): > > if it’s true that green bottles inherently cause problems, why would brewers continue to use them? Custom or tradition mostly. Or marketing may think the flint or green bottles display the beer better to the customer, or give it a better image. And there is truth to Barbarian’s statement that producers would be hesitant to make a switch because some customers might come to expect that flavor in the beer. And even though the OP has already been answered, it never hurts to give a [link](http://www.safespectrum.com/applications_beer_wine.html) or [two](http://www.evansale.com/skunked_beer.html). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-beer-bottles/353357/25 "2006-04-20T23:06:16Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > Which is why I largely stick to local microbrews: I can walk into any old bar or even grocery store and pick up a Shiner Bock or Saint Arnold Brown Ale that was bottled 12 days ago and refrigerated continuously since. On the other hand, a bottle-conditioned beer (naturally carbonated) is arguably at its best at about six months of age. It’s drinkable up to two years, but that is a bit weird - no good at all for lagers, and the ales taste decidedly different at two years. Not bad, not skunked, but different. The flavours get incredibly complex, too much so. I often imagine a hint of brandy or port wine in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-beer-bottles/353357.md?page=1)