Green bottle headache

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  1. BowWowWowYippyYoIPA

    BowWowWowYippyYoIPA Initiate (0) Dec 30, 2014 California

    Apologies if a thread like this already exists.

    My mom has always complained of getting headaches when she drinks beers in green bottles. I've never experienced this phenomenon, although I don't drink many beers in green bottles these days, and when I did I think I drank so many that a headache was inevitable. Just wondering, does the conversion of iso-alpha acids to 3-2-1 also produce headache inducing compounds, or is this correlation merely psychosomatic? Many thanks.
     
    #1 BowWowWowYippyYoIPA, Feb 6, 2015
  2. 1eyed_jack

    1eyed_jack Initiate (0) Dec 19, 2012 Illinois

    I think it's probably the Rolling Rock inducing the headaches.
     
    #2 1eyed_jack, Feb 6, 2015
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  3. doktorhops

    doktorhops Pooh-Bah (2,065) Jan 12, 2011 Australia
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    Possibly, the UV linked "skunk" conversion of α acids to 3-methylbut-2-ene-1-thiol adds organic sulfur compounds to the beer which is similar to the bad hangovers certain people get when they drink red wine with preservatives derived from sulfates, however it is a bit of a stretch to link the two, and I wouldn't imagine the beer would get as much sulfur by-products as a bottle of wine contains... ask a lab chemist.
     
    #3 doktorhops, Feb 6, 2015
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  4. iamai

    iamai Initiate (0) Feb 6, 2015 Maryland

    the darker the glass the more protection offered from UV rays skunking your brew.
    when WW2 caused a demand for brown glass, quality brewers forfeited their brown bottles for clear...
    ...which caused the quality brews to appear the same as cheaper clear glass beers.
    brown glass quality brewers used green glass to stand out and green had become a status symbol.
    now many green glass brews are recognized by their aesthetic. and even clear glass has UV coating.
    its possible that a combination of skunked and or bad quality beer is the culprit of the green bottle headache...
    but its not the green bottle imo.
     
    #4 iamai, Feb 6, 2015
  5. Premo88

    Premo88 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,670) Jun 6, 2010 Texas
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    ironically, I got a headache trying Baltika No. 7 for the first time last night ... smelt like a skunk got into my AC unit
     
    #5 Premo88, Feb 6, 2015
  6. Robtobfest

    Robtobfest Initiate (0) Oct 21, 2009 Connecticut

    not head ache but...... I love saison don't in the green bottle!!!!
     
    #6 Robtobfest, Feb 6, 2015
  7. beernazi

    beernazi Initiate (0) Dec 5, 2012 California

    sounds very plausible
     
    #7 beernazi, Feb 6, 2015
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