http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/03/baltic.sea.beer/index.html?hpt=T2

Funny, I was going to make a thread this morning called "in b4 yeti or skinsandwich post a link to the beer article on CNN" but didn't.

And it was Bud Light.

Is this where the band SHIPWRECK got their name?

The article was babbling about how much these are worth, and how well-preserved they are, but didn't mention if anyone was going to try to drink it. Who is going to be the guinea pig for that shite?

probably skunked

The first sip will instantly turn you into a pirate.

i'd drink it.

"After a thorough search of the surrounding area, the divers found another box of beer. On the right side of the box, someone had etched the name "DWYER" in capital letters. The divers were stunned at this discovery."

WTF?

it's probably an empty that some pirate pissed into.

Yar, the laws of physics be a harsh mistress.

hahahahaha A+

I can assure you it's not the world's oldest beer. Beer dates back as far as the Sumerians who created a beer called Ninkasi, which was an unhopped, honey sweetened ale. It's probably still some good shit though.

It's more accurate in the article itself where it says the oldest bottles of beer, and the oldest still drinkable beer.

Maybe, but at least we know it's been cold for all those years, so who knows. If anything probably just a little flat.

Oldest active beer that's been chilled. They've found eveidence of beer in Sumeria and Egypt but it was not chilled and wasn't drinkable.

It was drinkable. There was some guy back in 89 or whatever, can't remember the name, but he recreated one of the first Sumerian beers after archaelogists found old recipes, and I guess it actually came out real good. It was that ninkasi recipe.

So they recreated it using the old recipe?
That's different than finding a beer that was brewed 200 years ago, that's chilled and still in the bottle.

It is different, but still pretty cool in my opinion. I would have loved to try both either way.

Any ancient recipe/brew for any type of food is usually recreated with what they know. Fascinating; ancient culinary ftw

FTW indeed man

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0718_050718_ancientbeer.html

Hmmm im intrigued by this.

So that's what happened to that rack my buddy was supposed to bring to my St. Swithun's Day cookout.

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