First AG: 12/05/07 - Looks like it's a go...

[BarryNL]

Anyway, you think that's bad; look what I have to put up with at work:

[DRB]

Barry you haven't been having sneaky slurps out of those bottles and putting the caps back on have you,thinking that nobody will notice.

[SteveD]

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

Well, maybe DaaB couldn't, but there are plenty of eminent brewers and beer judges who most certainly can, in addition to the centuries of empirical and scientific wisdom which tell us that UV degrades hop constituents, wether still in the hop or in the bottle. Some brands of beer in clear bottles do not exhibit it, and they are the ones that use certain hop extracts which are immune. Newcastle Brown, for one. But traditional brews using whole hops and put into clear glass are asking for trouble.

Some clear bottled bitters just taste vile, and all in the same way. Catty, skunky - that's lightstrike.

[Matt]

Steve, thanks for the full explanation there, very interesting.

I had the very dubious er pleasure of having to drink a bottle of Sol recently when we were visiting someone (too polite to have declined), jesus its undrinkable.

Cheers,
Matt

[SteveD]

Steve, thanks for the full explanation there, very interesting.

I had the very dubious er pleasure of having to drink a bottle of Sol recently when we were visiting someone (too polite to have declined), jesus its undrinkable.

Cheers,
Matt

Well, Sol shouldn't taste much of anything, hence the wedge of lime to give it some, any, flavour! If it tasted yuk, my guess is that it sat on a shelf for a while exposed to flourescent light.