Ross McKay <rosko@zeta.NOT.THIS.BIT.org.au> wrote in message news:<l3l5kvg8e8mg73mmu9e669muegfs78ekgs@4ax.com>...
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> Traditional beer bottles are brown for a reason - they keep out more of
> the light that will skunk a beer.
>
> As for PET, from what I've read they are good for short term storage
> only - eventually, they'll let in some oxygen which will oxidise your
> beer (that's a Bad Thing).
>
> Of course, YMMV. If you keep your clear PET bottles in the dark
> (especially away from fluorescent lights) then you might never notice a
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I wouldn't -- and I don't -- worry. Keep the bottles, as Ross says, in
the dark: that means in a box or a cupboard, or even just a quiet
corner of the shed (well away from kerosene, mower-fuel, creosote or
anything else with a pong!). Very little beer is kept long enough to
make the slightest real-world difference. Even commercially-sealed
plastic bottles do very slowly leak gas (we opened a two-year-old one
of lemonade, and found it flat as a pancake); but the pressure inside
is enough to keep oxygen out for a long time. Check the best-before-by
dates on the lemonade and beer in a shop to get an idea of the
*minimum* time this will be (I'd do it for you, but haven't got any
commercial bottles around just now).

Mike.