Wednesday, 9 February 2011

World's 'oldest beer' to brewed again

Bottles of beer have been retrieved from a ship wreck in the Baltic the BBC reports. Believed to date from 1800-1830 the beer is to be analysed so a re-creation can be brewed.

Personally I can't help but think that they could save themselves the effort and just ask Ron what the recipe is. He's bound to have the details in one of his tables!

2 comments:

  1. Didn't someone do the same with an ancient Egyptian beer? I think they flogged the recreation in Harrods. Not sure how accurate the recipe was, but it was more a mead/beer hybrid I think with malt, honey & mix of herbs & spices. I was never any good at history but didn't ancient Egypt pre-date George IV or William IV ?

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  2. world's oldest beer?? I'm pretty sure we had beer before the 1800s. One old beer story I heard sounded great (if it was true, I'm guessing it wasn't) - Someone found some preserved yeast samples form the Jurassic period, decided to make a clone and make a beer from it - sounds good and geeky to me. And asked for Egyptian beer and the likes, Dogfish head have that zone fully covered.

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