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From: lat@druil.UUCP (TepperL)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Re: beer bottles
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Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 12:11:05 EDT
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> Keywords: Cobalt blue
> 
> 
>>Glass is made blue by adding a pinch of Cobalt.
>>So, why are beer bottles only clear,green and brown?
>>(Maybe the other colors are too expensive?)

In spite of what the Miller Brewing Company would have
you believe, beer bottles should not be clear.  Beer, wine
and whiskey deteriorate when exposed to light (not lite,
which is a form beer deterioration created by humans who
don't like the taste of beer).

Brown bottles do a better job than green ones of keeping
light off your beer.

Cost of the colors has nothing to do with it.
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Larry Tepper	    {ihnp4 | allegra}!drutx!druil!lat	+1-303-538-1759