??...most people drink beer for the masses (bud, corona, skunky heineken) and those of us on this column have more adventerous tastes, looking for flavor and trying something new. Sometimes it works in your favor as well. I was at...

- specifically sunlight (real bad) or florescent light (not a whole lot better). Expose a light bodied, hoppy beer bottled in green glass to sunlight and you’re going to get skunky beer in about a half an hour (even if...

Light reacts with a chemical in hops and produces a compound that really does smell rather skunky. Beer is best protected from this by a can; brown glass is next best, followed by green, then clear glass, which offers no...

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of getting a beer and wait until I got home to open up a choice bottle. :) If I really had to drink, I’d settle for Heineken...even though it always tastes skunky to me.

I hope Brickskeller has improved over the years. I lived in DC for about 12 years, moved away 9 years ago. Back then, Brickskeller was famous more because it was there. Yes, they had an amazing collection of beers, but...

won’t be as good as fresh beer. Beer is effected by light (causes skunkiness) and extreme temperature changes/range, so if you have bottles, keep them out of the light and keep them relatively cool (under 60 F),...

This weekend, I was at Jon’s Market in Hollywood/Los Feliz (it’s on Vermont, right below Hollywood) and I was checking out their beer selection. Lots of really cheap beer from Eastern Europe, we’re talking $1.50...

Lots of questions! Heineken is light enough as it is, but don’t buy it in the bottles. Green bottle beer is almost always skunky-smelling. If you want Heineken, buy it in cans. That being said, if you’re buying Red...

claims he can taste it and says he prefers it for his Samuel Adams. Ditto, folks who might have picked up the age of bottle or canned beers while it was still within it’s “pull date” (skunkiness is another issue...

't attempt to state that American beer trumps the fine breweries of Europe. I can guarantee that a village pilsner in Czechoslovakia is much better than Dave’s Honky Tonk Missouri Brew..

sorry to be contrary, janet, but Heineken in bottles is much worse than in cans. The glass color is green, and that allows in a frequency of light that reacts with the beer to produce an off, "skunky" flavor. That flavor is one...

and have more residual value to the packaging industry. Cans don’t let any light through; no skunky canned beer. In Minnesota, our wonderful dog days are over, the sunlight is gone, a cold snap ha, there was snow in the air...

see this with other beer types (though I’ve had ales/lagers in clear or green glass bottles go "skunky" which is quite different). It’s starting to annoy me because I hate wasting money on premium beers that...

I’m jealous of your beer experiences. You are now my hero. I don’t like the Rainier Ale that you can get now, too skunky and cheap tasting. It seems to have been brewed solely for alcohol content. But the Rainier Lager...