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OnDaFence 36M/44M
44267 posts
2/15/2019 7:11 pm

Last Read:
2/16/2019 7:15 pm

Old Brew



Ahoy, beer lovers: A bottle from a 133-year-old shipwreck may yield yeast for a new brew in upstate New York.



Biotechnology students at the State University of New York at Cobleskill uncorked a bottle from the shipwrecked SS Oregon on Thursday. Serious Brewing Company of Howes Cave plans to develop a new brew if the students successfully extract yeast.



Bill Felter, of Serious Brewing, acquired the beer from a customer who owns an assortment of artifacts recovered from the Oregon.



The ship was en route from Liverpool, England, to New York City with 852 people aboard on March 14, 1886, when it collided with a schooner near Fire Island, New York, and sank. All but one person survived.



Last year, an Australian brewer produced beer from yeast recovered from a 220-year-old shipwreck. In Tasmania they’ve taken things a step further, with one museum taking the original samples of a 220 year old beer found inside a shipwreck in the 1990’s, and turning it into a drinkable brew. I'll chase this down further for a future blog!



OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/15/2019 7:13 pm

I need more time to research that Aussie brew.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/15/2019 7:14 pm

This blog was not easy to dig up the pictures to go with it.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/15/2019 7:15 pm

I also have a pile of paperwork to go through over the weekend


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/15/2019 7:16 pm

along with ANOTHER dam snowstorm set to dump 5-7" on us.


bychance4709 61M

2/15/2019 7:58 pm

hic....I'll drink to that...hic


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/15/2019 8:07 pm

I'd name it BOG GROG !!!!


Hungr4Yungr 75M
5766 posts
2/15/2019 8:55 pm

Sounds like an interesting project for the students. I hope they can develop a satisfying beer. Don't work too hard on paperwork; you have to save energy for snow removal. The 8" of snow we were promised turned into just 2", so shoveling was easy on this old codger.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/15/2019 9:04 pm

    Quoting Hungr4Yungr:
    Sounds like an interesting project for the students. I hope they can develop a satisfying beer. Don't work too hard on paperwork; you have to save energy for snow removal. The 8" of snow we were promised turned into just 2", so shoveling was easy on this old codger.
Much of ours blew away into the ditches and lowlands... Pays to take the high ground for a defensible frontier against mother nature. As of yet we still may luck out and I am not holding my breath on this one. Winter's wrath will be beaten in the next two weeks and I have plans of my own to stretch out and start heating the Beemer Pad so I can get started painting the ceiling before the cementing season begins for us.


BJ69ormore 67M
23 posts
2/16/2019 7:43 am

Sounds like this would be a great project for my friends and me. Great idea.


Stevie1954 66T
551 posts
2/16/2019 6:12 pm

Here's one to you, Brett!


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/16/2019 7:10 pm

    Quoting BJ69ormore:
    Sounds like this would be a great project for my friends and me. Great idea.
There is a bar in DSM that features over 100 brews on tap that would be fun to work your way through too!


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/16/2019 7:12 pm

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We've toyed with the idea of doing a hurricane party too! Let's stay in touch. This could be fun.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/16/2019 7:13 pm

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I am about half done with them and taking a break. Dam snow is about an hour away and we are solidly in the middle of the worst this time.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/16/2019 7:15 pm

JD get's kegs of Beck's but Iowa law allows 600 gallons to be made per household before a tax is imposed.