Post by rubl on Nov 13, 2016 17:09:00 GMT 7
"Oldest Beer Brewed from Shipwreck's 220-Year-Old Yeast Microbes
Yeast microbes from the world's oldest bottle of beer — a 220-year-old bottle found in one of Australia's earliest shipwrecks — are being used to create a new, modern beer with the characteristic taste of the 18th-century brew.
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"It's got quite a sweet taste — some people have described it as almost a cider or fresh taste — which has come from the yeast," said project leader David Thurrowgood, a conservator and chemist at the Queen Victoria Museum at Launceston in Tasmania."
www.livescience.com/56814-oldest-beer-recreated-from-shipwreck-yeast.html
Yeast microbes from the world's oldest bottle of beer — a 220-year-old bottle found in one of Australia's earliest shipwrecks — are being used to create a new, modern beer with the characteristic taste of the 18th-century brew.
...
"It's got quite a sweet taste — some people have described it as almost a cider or fresh taste — which has come from the yeast," said project leader David Thurrowgood, a conservator and chemist at the Queen Victoria Museum at Launceston in Tasmania."
www.livescience.com/56814-oldest-beer-recreated-from-shipwreck-yeast.html
