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Light Absorption by Various Beer Bottle Glass

Type of review: 
podcast

James Spencer interviewed Brad Sturgeon of Monmouth College, Illinois on Basic Brewing Radio about research he had carried out about different colours of glass bottle letting different wavelengths

rating: 
5

Light Strike & Skunking of beer

Ultraviolet light reacts with certain hop compounds to produce a sulphurous smell.   The compound formed is 3-methyl-2-butene-1-thiol (MBT) and humans are very sensitive to it and can det