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In 1977, a ship was discovered in Sydney Bay that As it turned out, it rested on the bottom of the Bassov Strait for almost two centuries: judging by the documents raised, the ship left the coast of Tasmania in 1797, but never came to the destination bay – disappeared without to lead.
One of the trophies of submariners who examined the sunken ship, there were bottles of beer. The foamy drink itself, of course, is not could survive for such a long period of “underwater storage”. A because the unique bottles went straight to the museum, becoming part expositions of the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston.
However, more recently, one of the influential curators of this museum exhibition, which in combination turned out to be amateur brewer, eager to revive the old beer.
So one of the museum’s beer bottles went to Adelaide Wine Research Institute – the capital of the south coast of Australia. Here are experts, great experts in their affairs, isolated from the fluid about thirty different stamps yeast. And lo and behold: one of them was viable.
After that, experienced brewers began experimenting with using these, as they themselves christened them, “zombie yeast.” It took some time, however, as a result of trial and error a porter named “The Wreck” was born. This is a dark beer with fairly dense malt composition having light floral and strawberry flavor.
It turns out that the old beer reached the consumer through two centuries, now you can try it in one of the bars on the shore of Sydney Bay. Can’t say say resuscitation brewers that the beer turned out one hundred percent so as it was at that distant time, but it certainly has a piece of ancient taste, strength and, most importantly, unique yeast yeast …
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