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Originally Posted by Marcellus
Any beer sold in a green bottle is actually looking for a bit of skunkyness. Its on purpose.
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Huh? Not so much. Green glass was, in the past, considered a status symbol for "fine European beer", a bit of an after effect of European using green glass because there was a shortage of brown glass during WWII. The problem with green bottles is that beer not properly stored in green glass will become lightstruck, or "skunked". It's definitely not on purpose. If you go and have a Heineken fresh from the brewery, it will taste nothing like one over here.
Trust me, the brewers would rather you not drink the beer skunked, but when the beer has to come from overseas, sometimes the greatest care isn't applied to keep the beers away from light and temperature extremes.
Brown bottles give a lot more resistance to ultraviolet light and visible light that will skunk beer, but they're not as "pretty" as green bottles.