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!
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 ?
ReplyDeleteworld'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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