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From: stirling@fortune.UUCP (Patrick Stirling)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Bottle colors
Message-ID: <5989@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 14:29:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 15 14:29:51 1986
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In article <443@valid.UUCP> jao@valid.UUCP (John Oswalt) writes:
>Why is is that beer bottles are sometimes brown, sometimes green, and
>sometimes clear, but never blue or red or anything else?
>John Oswalt (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!jao)

It's because some beers are affected (adversely) by light. However, at least
judging by their taste (or rather, the lack thereof!), it really doesn't
matter with American 'beers' (which we Brits would call Gnat's piss!) - bottle
colours are probably a marketing ploy to make the beer appear more desirable
than it actually is. Maybe green and brown are easier/cheaper to make than
other colours.

patrick
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