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
Who has a beer or wine ping list?...............
Whatever the method of brewing this beer, it has got to be better than the equine urine otherwise called Bud Light.
How do you get a job as a beer-taster?
just make sure this is ‘before drinking’ beer, rather than ‘after drinking’ beer... they both look the same y’know...
If you found a 19th century bottle of anything, would you take a sip?
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.
Vilpola said, “It tasted skunky, the “born on” date was 1808.”
I suspect that one could achieve the same effect by sampling open beers the morning after a frat party.
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.
Talk about a long lagering period...
I'd hit that (the beer)!
"And it still tasted better than Budweiser."
Ping.
unfortunately market reality dictates that even if they can sample the yeast, and identify the base grist and hops with reasonable accuracy, whatever the actual beer was is likely to be viewed as needed some ‘refinement’ in order to be drinkable to modern palates.
If you want a probable 19th century taste, the closest thing I can think of around today is likely to be Cantillon and the former 3 fonteinen lambics.
Maybe Sam Smith’s Old Brewery Bitter in a wood cask also is similar to how that brewery would have made beer 120 years ago, if they had the yorkshire squares then.
There is already a heady brew that uses the old methods and recipe. OLD FROTHINGSLOSH from Pittsburg.
The bubbles are on the bottom.