tieflyer
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I have been told clear bottles are bad for beer, green isn't much better, blue is ok, and brown/amber is the best. is this true? 
does bottle color matter?
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hoppymonkey
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yes in that order. The darker the bottle the less sun can get to them.
dummkauf
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Almost....black is the best 
no light getting through
no light getting throughAlehouserock
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Styles
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Hi there, and welcome. Colour certainly does matter. Brown all the way, or else keep them out of the light. I wouldn't think even blue would be any good (as it's UV light that is the problem, and blue wouldn't be a good filter for that), but I haven't heard either way.
demonrichie
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if you can get opaque(not see through at all) theyd probably be best
billvon
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It's blue light as well. Even if you protect it from UV 100%, blue can skunk beer.
upperNY01brewer
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100 % true
Keep your beer in a box and the color of the bottles does not matter.
Dr_Gordon_Freeman
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fatmoose
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Wait, if blue light is bad wouldn't blue bottles in fact be the best for protecting from that? If I recall my high school physics right (and I probably don't) the color of an object is an indication of the light it is reflecting. So if your bottle is blue then it is reflecting blue light rather than letting it into the beer.
Of course I think that only really counts for solid objects, something opaque probably works differently. Ignore me, I've been drinking.
specialized
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Wait, if blue light is bad wouldn't blue bottles in fact be the best for protecting from that? If I recall my high school physics right (and I probably don't) the color of an object is an indication of the light it is reflecting. So if your bottle is blue then it is reflecting blue light rather than letting it into the beer.
Of course I think that only really counts for solid objects, something opaque probably works differently. Ignore me, I've been drinking.
I think you have it backwards. A blue screen will let blue light through. That's why it appears blue.
That's why black works best, hard to come by black light.
demonrichie
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This is my philosophy. Who's storing their beer in a lit area anyway?
my beers get stored wherever i can find room
I bottled what could be called a world wide lager in green bottles and left some out in the sun for 20 minutes. It tasted like many imports, skunked. Good and defective.
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