Oh, and here's the label ready to go (Hobgoblin clone, geddit?):
First AG: 12/05/07 - Looks like it's a go...
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BarryNL
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BarryNL
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SteveD
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SteveD
Yes! And then bury it 6' underground as the alphagamma zed-waves can penetrate shed walls and 5' of soil! If it's a lead lined coffin, so much the betterDaaB wrote:Put it in a coffin and it'll be fine
On a serious note - clear glass is not a good idea IF your beer is going to be exposed to a source of UV, ie sunlight, or a flourescent tube.
If it isn't, then obviously, no problem.
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PieOPah
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delboy
Hopkins managed to ferment his first mini-mash attempt in a glass demijohn sitting in his spare room and then bottled some of it in clear bottles and so far hasn't noticed any lightstrike in the flavourSteveD wrote:Aaaaaargh! Clear glass! In full daylight!!!!! Are you MAAAAAAAAAD!!!!! Beer is like Dracula...expose it to sunlight and it dies! Brown bottles for beer. Brown stops UV from turning your precious brew into lightstruck kak.
...it's a Corona bottle as well. Shame on you!
. One of my last brews was knackered by just letting it sit in plastic fermentor under the same sort of conditions 
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SteveD
No disrespect to Hoppkins intended, but many brewers, particularly inexperienced ones can get so used to off tastes that they don't notice them, and a lot of people are used to the taste of lightstruck beer as a lot of commercial beer sold in clear glass is afflicted with it. Caledonian switched to brown bottles recently for that very reason.
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Matt
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BarryNL
Heh, I will plead that it's only one in clear glass so I can see what it looks like - the rest is safely tucked up in brown bottles. I'd also like to make clear that my wife drank the original contents - with a slice of lime in the neckSteveD wrote:Aaaaaargh! Clear glass! In full daylight!!!!! Are you MAAAAAAAAAD!!!!! Beer is like Dracula...expose it to sunlight and it dies! Brown bottles for beer. Brown stops UV from turning your precious brew into lightstruck kak.
...it's a Corona bottle as well. Shame on you!
Here's most of my beer to keep you happy
(I'd like particular attention paid to the one's which obviously once held Delirium Tremens!)
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SteveD
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SteveD
Barry, you are forgivenBarryNL wrote:Heh, I will plead that it's only one in clear glass so I can see what it looks like - the rest is safely tucked up in brown bottles. I'd also like to make clear that my wife drank the original contents - with a slice of lime in the neckSteveD wrote:Aaaaaargh! Clear glass! In full daylight!!!!! Are you MAAAAAAAAAD!!!!! Beer is like Dracula...expose it to sunlight and it dies! Brown bottles for beer. Brown stops UV from turning your precious brew into lightstruck kak.
...it's a Corona bottle as well. Shame on you!
Here's most of my beer to keep you happy
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Matt
Blimey thats a bit harshSteveD wrote:You think not? I think they both taste rubbish in bottle - unrecognisable from draught.Matt wrote:Isn't light strike more of a problem with lighter tasting ales and lagers? The likes of Spitfire and Bishops doo dah come in clear bottles, to no ill effect that I have observed.
Matt
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Matt
Hmmm … *sound of Matt's tired brain ticking*.
I wouldn't mind a little more opinion from you Steve / anyone … did you specifically mean this is due to light-strike, or is this just an inevitable difference between bottled and draught?
In a previous thread I remember DaaB said he could not find light strike in clear bottled ales and I had based my comment on this and my own findings (albeit that my taste buds have not been benchmarked )
Cheers,
Matt
I wouldn't mind a little more opinion from you Steve / anyone … did you specifically mean this is due to light-strike, or is this just an inevitable difference between bottled and draught?
In a previous thread I remember DaaB said he could not find light strike in clear bottled ales and I had based my comment on this and my own findings (albeit that my taste buds have not been benchmarked
)Cheers,
Matt