In Reply To #16 Holy Shit! I have never heard of that before. Some beer guru you are..... ever consider moving? Reason enough for me to leave. I spent a good portion of 7 years in North Carolina and they've got drive through liquor and beer stores. Fast beer and liquor! I thought that was weird, this is... ridiculous!

brown bottles are better than green at protecting beer from light. light is bad for beer, even if it's just the beverage cooler fluorescents in the store. OV Splits and original Koch's GAB rarely skunked for me even tho' they are/were clear glass...? glass always better than metal for a beer container?

In Reply To #16 Ouch! that seems weird and you're in PA not Kuwait or some such. I can't picture a place that doesn't have six or 12 packs of beer. I've bought beer up and down the east coast. Also news to me was that some states only sell beer in liquor stores aka package stores.

OK, I may have missed it, but I've not seen mention of blue bottles. I've got several 1 liter flippers, some blue some brown. According to a local brew meister, the uv protection is the same. Anyone?

All I want to do is talk about Surfsleez's photo, to hell with the clear bottle forum. My member photo seems so boring now... (from a previous forum message)Yes cans do suck compared to bottles if you drink from them. Beleive it or not my closest Newcastle liquer store only sells them from a can so I have no real choice when I need them quick. But once you pour them into your favorite mug, you get your good ole Newkie back with no chance of UV poisoning... Kissmybass(aka.The Newkie Browns)

In Reply To #23 I was thinking the same thing.... Clear bottles, green bottles, dark bottles.... whatever. give me a beer and lets talk about that photo. Pedro or that chick? I don't stand a chance! Only if it was an actual photo...

I've been indoctrinated with the adage that darker bottles protect beer from light and prevent skunking. I've also drunk clear-bottled beer that was just fine. In my experience, green bottles seem to be skunked most often as compared to other bottle types, or cans.

In Reply To #25 yeah I agree. Green bottles have given me the most problems. Heineken, Becks, Rolling Rock, Pilsner Urquell... all seem to be skunked a lot of the time.

Back to the clear bottle topic...Samuel Smiths comes in a clear bottle and I havent heard of one instance of it being skunked. I think it comes down to, unless its sitting in the sun or on the shelf for a period of time it doesnt matter the color of the bottle. So get over the clear bottle excuse.I want to see what I'm going to be drinking, especially when I can see the Brown of the Nut Browns and Ales. So heres to Newcastle and Samuel Smiths... Keep the clear bottles coming my way. Kissmybass

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