Chicagoist: Skunky Beers Aren't Brewed With Swamp Gas

smallerdemon

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:29:00 -0600

Most homebrew books point out the major differences in bottles. I only use brow for my homebrew, and I keep all the beer way far away from the sun. A brief (and similar to your own) explanation is here: http://www.allaboutbeer.com/homebrew/bottle2.html Stella, Heinekin, and Urquell, all decent beers when they are fresh, are easily more apt to go skunky due to the green bottle AND the storage near fluorescent lighting. This is pointed out at Beer Advocate: http://beeradvocate.com/news/stories_read/527/ So, yeah, skunking can happen after only a few minutes in direct sunlight, and you had your stuff there in the sunlight exposed pantry for months? :)

smallerdemon

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:27:19 -0600

Most homebrew books point out the major differences in bottles. I only use brow for my homebrew, and I keep all the beer way far away from the sun. A brief (and similar to your own) explanation is here: http://www.allaboutbeer.com/homebrew/bottle2.html Stella, Heinekin, and Urquell, all decent beers when they are fresh, are easily more apt to go skunky due to the green bottle AND the storage near fluorescent lighting. (This is pointed out at Beer Advocate: http://beeradvocate.com/news/stories_read/527/ )

Bob

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:01:36 -0600

Skunked or unskunked...only posers drink Stella.

Mindy

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:19:41 -0600

right on, chuck, right on.

spence

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:02:34 -0600

"And as soon as we closed the refrigerator door and cracked the top off the bottle, one whiff was all we needed to remind us why we don't drink Stella Artois, especially in bottle." Question: how did you come to this conclusion from a beer that you left in the sun for months that is a shell of it's former beer-self? Really, it should remind you of why you don't drink skunky beer. But besides your questionable taste in Belgium lager beer (I'm a fan of Stella), tops on the article. I love it when the Chicagoist gets their science on, especially when the science meets beer.

Von

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:30:26 -0600

I find this article hugely informative. I also want to name my band "Skunky Thiol" - It has a nice ring to it.

navin

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:23:34 -0600

Nothing worse than gettin' a skunky six pack. I got a bad sixer of Red Stripe a couple weeks ago that tasted like it had corn syrup in it or something, ungh. Good call on the Slayer pic BTW.