EVER wondered why beer bottles are almost always green or brown? Clear bottles for booze are a rarity – and there’s a really good reason for that. While we’ve been supping ale in the UK for ...

More than 100 years ago, a young German man named Richard Platz stuffed a message into a brown beer bottle, then tossed the bottle into the Baltic Sea during a nature hike. Platz, the 20-year-old ...

To prevent the process of skunking from occurring, beer brewers have opted for darkly tinted glass. It's why you see so many beers in brown glass bottles today."It's a simple reaction that creates ...