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Blighted by the lights?
Light is well known to promote chemical changes in foodstuffs. Brewers have known about light’s flavour impact on beer for years. It’s widely reported that the product goes ‘skunky’ when it’s exposed to light – even just in the time it takes you to nurse your beer on a lazy summer afternoon. Beer developing off flavours in the presence of light was noted as long ago as 1875, which is why, until the marketeers got involved, almost all beer was bottled in dark glass, amber having been found to be the best at filtering most of the harmful wavelengths. ...
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