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Are Cider and Mead ok in green bottles, or should you stick with brown like with beer.

I'm thinking those 12oz green champagne bottles would be nice.

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Rick_R

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Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I would assume they would be fine in brown, green, or clear. The brown beer bottles are to protect against skunking, from light hitting the hop oils (hop-derived molecules, called isohumulones, to be googley-exact); since mead and cider have no hops, it shouldn't be a problem. I plan to use clear flip-tops for cider (if I ever get around to making some cider), so if I'm wrong hopefully someone will set me straight.

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I use clear and green bottles all the time with my ciders, and plan to with my future meads as well. Rick is right, no hops, no problem.

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I've been using all my Heineken bottles exclusively for Apfelwein.
+1 on Rick's statement.

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Just keep the out of light and you are fine.

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Kewl!

Thanks.

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You don't need to do this, since there is no hops in mead or apfelwiens to cause skunking...

Clear, Green, Blue bottles are all fine for wines and meads.

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BigKahuna

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but if you decide to dry hop your apfelwein...and I'd recommend that you do...be sure that you bottle that batch in brown.

Other than that...I love clear and green bottles.

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Yep...I almost added that qualifier, since I know a few people add hops to both apfelwein and even some mead recipes...If there are hops in your brew use brown bottles...Otherwise, any color goes!

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