Green beer bottles?

[Lazy_Ant_Brewing]

What’s the difference in the level of protection between the brown glass bottles most beer comes in and the green bottles only a few brewers use?

What do these brewers do differently that allows them to use the green bottles?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

[deadpoetic0077]

From what I understand, there is minimal, if any, protection from light with green glass. Typically it is a marketing thing. I seem to remember reading something somewhere that some of these brewers use a special chemical to help prevent skunking but it only helps temporarily.

[kramerog]

Many brewers who use greem or clear bottles use treated hop extracts instead of hops.  The treatment consists of modifying the alpha acids by hydrogenating some of the double bonds so that they don’t participate in the skunking reactions, IIRC.

[deadpoetic0077]

@kramerog

Many brewers who use greem or clear bottles use treated hop extracts instead of hops.  The treatment consists of modifying the alpha acids by hydrogenating some of the double bonds so that they don’t participate in the skunking reactions, IIRC.

What he said!

[flars]

@kramerog

Many brewers who use greem or clear bottles use treated hop extracts instead of hops.  The treatment consists of modifying the alpha acids by hydrogenating some of the double bonds so that they don’t participate in the skunking reactions, IIRC.

Does this meet Reinheitsgebot for Pilsner Urquell?

[pete_baker (pete b)]

FWIW for home brewing purposes as long as they are never exposed to light green bottles are fine.

[kramerog]

@flars

@kramerog

Many brewers who use greem or clear bottles use treated hop extracts instead of hops.  The treatment consists of modifying the alpha acids by hydrogenating some of the double bonds so that they don’t participate in the skunking reactions, IIRC.

Does this meet Reinheitsgebot for Pilsner Urquell?

Treated hop extracts do not meet Reinheitsgebot.

[pmorrissette (Phil_M)]

FWIW, Heineken and Yeungling all use green bottles and untreated hops.

Pilsner Urquell no longer uses green bottles, but they didn’t use treated hops either.

[Philbrew]

FWIW, Heineken and Yeungling all use green bottles and untreated hops.

Pilsner Urquell no longer uses green bottles, but they didn’t use treated hops either.

I see an open six-pack of Heineken sitting on the top shelf under the fluorescent lights at the store and I think, that six-pack carrier should be black with a white stripe.

[flars]

FWIW, Heineken and Yeungling all use green bottles and untreated hops.

Pilsner Urquell no longer uses green bottles, but they didn’t use treated hops either.

I have a few Yuengling in amber bottles.

[santoch]

I was excited to see Saison Dupont in a BROWN bottle recently.

[rusty_tlc]

Set a six pack of Heineken in direct  sun for half an hour then cool it down and (try) to drink one. When I lived in Las Vegas you couldn’t finish a Hienny by the pool before it got skunky.

[Hand_of_Dom]

@santoch

I was excited to see Saison Dupont in a BROWN bottle recently.

All the 330ml Dupont beers are brown bottled.

[erockrph]

@santoch

I was excited to see Saison Dupont in a BROWN bottle recently.

Awesome! I will have to keep my eyes open for these.

[jonhughey_att.net (HoosierBrew)]

@erockrph

@santoch

I was excited to see Saison Dupont in a BROWN bottle recently.

Awesome! I will have to keep my eyes open for these.

Yeah, I’ll be looking for sure.

[reverseapachemaster]

@Hand_of_Dom

@santoch

I was excited to see Saison Dupont in a BROWN bottle recently.

All the 330ml Dupont beers are brown bottled.

AFAIK the 330ml bottles have always been brown but Dupont is moving the 750ml bottles to brown as well.

As much as a handful of American saison brewers wax philosophical about the magic of green bottles and how Belgian saison brewers intend for skunking to be part of the beer’s character that’s just not true. It was cost prohibitive to get brown 750ml champagne bottles in Belgium for a long time. Somebody asked Brasserie Dupont about this and that’s the response they gave.

[Hand_of_Dom]

@reverseapachemaster

@Hand_of_Dom

@santoch

I was excited to see Saison Dupont in a BROWN bottle recently.

All the 330ml Dupont beers are brown bottled.

AFAIK the 330ml bottles have always been brown but Dupont is moving the 750ml bottles to brown as well.

As much as a handful of American saison brewers wax philosophical about the magic of green bottles and how Belgian saison brewers intend for skunking to be part of the beer’s character that’s just not true. It was cost prohibitive to get brown 750ml champagne bottles in Belgium for a long time. Somebody asked Brasserie Dupont about this and that’s the response they gave.

I did suspect that was the reason.  I only ever bought the 330ml ones so never had the chance to try the green bottle.