Blue Glass

[Knittycat]

I understand that light can skunk your beer, and that brown bottles help prevent that. I want to use the grolsch style bottles, and I know that the green glass isn't as good at filtering out the light as the brown.
I've found the grolsch style bottle in cobalt blue, and I love cobalt glass. Plus it's a great fit with what I've named my "farm" (I sell eggs from free range chickens). Sacrebleu! All my chickens are blue egg layers, so it's a fun pun.
So, how well does the blue filter out the light? Better or worse than the green? Better or worse than the brown? Anybody know?

 

[pelipen]

This should answer all your questions.
http://cdn2.libsyn.com/basicbrewing/bbrskunking.pdf

 

[amandabab]

I've never had any real skunking problems with blue glass.

 

[JRapp]

For the sake of aesthetics and that that's your farm name, I would use them anyway and try extra hard to keep them from the sun, its really not that hard to do!

Blue eggs, Blue in the farm name, Have a nice blue bottle with nice blue Labels that say Sacreblue Free range Stout on it.

Yeah, just try harder.

 

[amandabab]

nice blue Labels that say Sacreblue Free range Stout on it.

nice name, Sacreblue Free range Stout:rockin:
besides you couldn't skunk stout if you spanked a skunk with a clear bottle.

 

[Knittycat]

nice name, Sacreblue Free range Stout:rockin:
besides you couldn't skunk stout if you spanked a skunk with a clear bottle.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Good to know!

I guess I'll be getting the blue bottles!

 

[Knittycat]

This should answer all your questions.
http://cdn2.libsyn.com/basicbrewing/bbrskunking.pdf

:rockin: Awesome. Now that's my kind of answer!! I'll still use the blue I believe, But I will make a greater effort to shield them from the light.

<3 Science!

My major in college is chemistry. I'm looking forward to applying my hard won education to beer.

 

[Calichusetts]

You'll be fine...store them in the dark and there is almost zero chance of skunking. It takes a long time through a bottle, regardless of color. Unless you put the bottles out on your porch for a day or something. I have a ton of cobalt bottles and no issues with this.

 

[TyTanium]

Plus, you can then reuse all your Bud Platinum bottles

 

[NickTheGreat]

Plus, you can then reuse all your Bud Platinum bottles

I was gonna do this, but mine were all twist-offs.

And the label was a ^%@^#$ to get off anyway.

 

[Dmatson89]

nice name, Sacreblue Free range Stout:rockin:
besides you couldn't skunk stout if you spanked a skunk with a clear bottle.

Wow the picture this paints is perfect