BeerSci: Why You Should Never Drink Beer From A Clear Glass Bottle
Beersci Logo Todd DetweilerAvoid gross-smelling drinks by protecting your brew from light. The subject of Beer Gone Bad came up at the office the other day, and I gave my colleagues an impromptu lesson in why "skunking" in beer is very different from a lot of the other ways a beer can turn on you. (And there are many, many ways. We'll cover some of those in a later column.) I wasn't initially going to write about this particular topic because I thought that pretty much everyone who drank beer and was science-minded knew about the correlation between sunlight and a skunky beer. But it turns out that I was wrong -- it wasn't a well-known phenomenon, even among my colleagues -- so I'm going to do my beer-nerdulent duty and replicate the explanation here. Skunked beer smells just how it sounds: You crack open a bottle and an unmistakeably mustelid...