You really think these brewers sell their beer in bottles they know are going to allow their beer to get lightstruck . . . on accident?
:rolleyes: Wow, internet toughguy was gonna be internet tough! Glad you didn’t get the chance, big man! I really dodged a bullet! :rolleyes:
I just consider the source and let it roll off. Although your ignorance on the subject is approaching neutronium density, I must admit.
I’ve bitched about green/clear bottles skunking up beer on these boards in the past. (Look up those threads yourself if you don’t believe me).
But I call bullshit that the brewers intend for their brews to get skunky.
For one thing, if you buy green bottle beer in 12 packs where the bottles are completely covered and shielded from light, the beer has a far less occurrence of being skunky than when it’s in the open such as a single bottle or the open neck 6 pack.
What exactly is your problem with me, keyboard warrior?
The worst beer I’ve tasted was a homebrew ale. The worst commercial beer I’ve tasted is a joint tie between Skol lager, which as far as I know, is not sold anymore, and some novelty 50% ABV “lager” that I bought in Latvia; think whisky mixed with lager.
Beers I actually like (in that I agree forcing people to reveal what they like in these sorts of threads is a good idea), I tend to almost always drink real ale (no shortage of that in Edinburgh), but I’ll also drink decent lagers like Budvar and Hoegaarden, if they’re on tap.
Possibly that you are acting like an aggressive know-it-all drunk? That could be construed as germane to the thread, I guess, but I kind of wish you drop out of the conversation, too.
Do I know you? Because one of the homebrew batches I made once turned out gawd awful.
I’m acting nothing of the sort, and I wasn’t talking to you. I stated something that was told to me by an expert, and pkbites called it “ridiculous.” Of course I’m not going to be all sunshiney in my reply. And then people like you and Silenus feel some bizarre need to jump into the fray just to prove how internet tough you are. “Oh man, I would’ve laid the cybersmackdown on that guy! HAW HAW! Good thing I didn’t get to him first! You were TOO POLITE! HAW HAW!” Gimme a freaking break.
There are ways of disagreeing with someone, or calling their posts into question, without jumping straight to “ridiculous.” Especially on a topic so inconsequential. I don’t feel the need to be respectful to people who go out of their way to be rude to me from the start.
And the thing I find ridiculous is that these guys think competent businessmen would put their product in package that regularly destroys it.
And yet, they do.
Buy a 12 pack of Lowenbrau bottles. The beer is entirely covered by the cardboard container and not exposed to any light.
Also buy an open neck 6 pack of Lowenbrau bottles. The bottles are exposed to light.
Those beers will not taste the same. I’ve tried this experiment with a couple different brands and found that the bottles of the same kind of beer that was exposed to light had a skunky aroma and taste. Sometimes the skunkyness is subtle, sometimes it is strong & soury. But the brew exposed to light was different than the version not exposed.
Oh, and as for me asking you for a cite, all you had to say was that a brew master told you. You didn’t have to get snarky about it.
That can pretty much be said for all us homebrewers, I think. 
OK, sorry for the hijack, and no, I don’t know Cisco personally. But am I to understand that he is being, in turns, too polite and too snarky? Color me 
No, puly was too polite. Cisco was being a jerk.
Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here… this is the *beer *room!
I hereby challenge Cisco to a drunk. I’m buying.
The only Internet tough guy in this thread so far has been you, “punchy.”
Blah blah blah. You’re not part of this exchange and you’re not adding anything valuable or interesting to it so stop trying to insert yourself into it.
Well, my apologies then. But I didn’t think you had to call my post ridiculous.
I don’t know what a drunk is, but I think I’d lose (or win, depending on your perspective) pretty quickly. My alcohol tolerance mysteriously plummeted when I got married and inexplicably vanished when I became a father.
Wow, Cisco, you must be the last person on the Internet who still believes that you get to choose who responds to your posts on on a discussion board. Good luck with that, “punchy.”
Ah, my mistake! Thanks for clearing that up for me. 
I must have had one too many good beers before I posted! 
Properly handled and stored green bottles do not destroy the product. Not all Pilsner Urquell, Becks, Heineken, etc., are skunked. In fact, I would say the vast majority of them are not, if you’re buying from a store that knows how to keep their beer. There is absolutely no way the good people of Plzeňský Prazdroj, for instance, intend for their beer to taste skunked.
In my opinion, the main reason certain brewers stick to green bottles is not for the skunked taste (which sounds absurd to me–green bottles do not skunk beer. Improper storage does), but because green bottles have become associated, at least in the US, with “fancy import beer.” That’s a better marketing reason than saying the skunked taste is part of the flavor profile of the beer. Green beer bottles originated with post-WWII import beers, when there was a shortage of brown bottles in Europe. Green bottles became associated with premium beers. So why change to brown bottles, when you have these positive associations by the general public with green bottled beers?
Exactly. Marketing rules the roost. If Corona switched to brown bottles, it wouldn’t have the same cachet among “people who think they’re being trendy but who don’t know shit about beer.”