Ancient beer may serve as future model

www.wthitv.com ^ | 2-8-11 | MATTI HUUHTANEN

[Red Badger]

A bottle of beer that was retrieved from a shipwreck in the Åland archipelago in the summer of 2010, is photographed at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in Espoo, Finland, Tuesday

[Red Badger]

Who has a beer or wine ping list?...............

[HiTech RedNeck]

Whatever the method of brewing this beer, it has got to be better than the equine urine otherwise called Bud Light.

[Silentgypsy]

How do you get a job as a beer-taster?

[camle]

just make sure this is ‘before drinking’ beer, rather than ‘after drinking’ beer... they both look the same y’know...

[Red Badger]

Well, they did say it was “sour” and “salty”..................

[Red Badger]

and it lasted nearly 200 years!..............

[Red Badger]

You have to be a Baptist.............

[heiss]

in this case, phd in biochemistry apparently.

[Impy]

If you found a 19th century bottle of anything, would you take a sip?

[antiRepublicrat]

I want one of the champagnes. That’s from the time the widow (veuve) Clicquot was still around pioneering the techniques, taste and business of champagne.

[Le Chien Rouge]

[calico_thompson]

Vilpola said, “It tasted skunky, the “born on” date was 1808.”

[Red Badger]

Got a spare 70G’s?................

[Silentgypsy]

Try knews_hound for home brewers.

[Red Badger]

ping!........

[Paladin2]

I suspect that one could achieve the same effect by sampling open beers the morning after a frat party.

[Red Badger]

These have been sealed with cork and wax and been at the bottom of the cold Baltic sea for 200 years.................

[Paladin2]

Bud Light is an ADS (Alcohol Delivery System), NOT a beer.

[tbpiper]

I was thinking that the fact that there were only 5 bottles left from a whole ship load might have something to do with the sinking.