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World's oldest beer found among Åland sunken treasure

Divers hired by the provincial government of the Åland Islands have found what is quite possibly the world's oldest beer in the shipwreck from which they have also salvaged some nearly priceless bottles of champagne.

The beer and the champagne are both estimated to be about 200 years old.



You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Sep 5th, 2010 at 04:45:52 AM EST
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Oops I see I missed out the link to Helsingin Sanomat last night.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Sep 5th, 2010 at 04:56:54 AM EST
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I think we discussed it earlier.

It's probably a russian imperial stout, hopefully from Barclay Perkins.

I hope someone buys it and does an analysis of it and the yeast. I'd be fab if it was recreated.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Sep 5th, 2010 at 08:00:15 AM EST
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I like the bit about stronger alcoholic content to prevent freezing in transport via ship from England to Russia.

I shall use an enigmatic variation of that as an excuse sometime.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Sep 5th, 2010 at 08:33:58 AM EST
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the Finnish version from Koff.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Sep 5th, 2010 at 08:37:18 AM EST
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shame they call their Imperial Stout a porter, which is a different beer style.

the original is courage russian imperial Stout, even if it's not my favourite.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Sep 5th, 2010 at 03:20:29 PM EST
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