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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! |
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2/15/2019 7:13 pm |
I need more time to research that Aussie brew.
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2/15/2019 7:14 pm |
This blog was not easy to dig up the pictures to go with it.
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2/15/2019 7:15 pm |
I also have a pile of paperwork to go through over the weekend
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2/15/2019 7:16 pm |
along with ANOTHER dam snowstorm set to dump 5-7" on us.
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2/15/2019 7:58 pm |
hic....I'll drink to that...hic
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2/15/2019 8:07 pm |
hic....I'll drink to that...hic
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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.
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2/15/2019 9:04 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.
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Sounds like this would be a great project for my friends and me. Great idea.
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Here's one to you, Brett!
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2/16/2019 7:10 pm |
Sounds like this would be a great project for my friends and me. Great idea.
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2/16/2019 7:12 pm |
We've toyed with the idea of doing a hurricane party too! Let's stay in touch. This could be fun.
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2/16/2019 7:13 pm |
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.
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2/16/2019 7:15 pm |
Here's one to you, Brett!
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