Shipwreck Divers Discovered a 162-Year-Old Bottle of Guinness Brewed During the Reign of Queen Victoria—and They Want to Take a Swig
Researchers say the sealed bottle may still be drinkable and could help identify yeast strains and recipes from Guinness’s early history.
- Recently, Belgian photographer Stefan Panis discovered a sealed Guinness bottle dating to 1864 while exploring the shipwreck of The Mindoro off the coast of Dover in the English Channel.
- Apparently, the bottle remained perfectly preserved because it rested upside down; brewing historian Edward Bourke explained the trapped air bubble creates a pressurized barrier blocking seawater.
- Researchers view the contents as a treasure trove of information, containing specific yeast strains and ingredient data that serve as a biological record of the Victorian and Civil War Era.
- Panis and his colleagues contacted a microbiologist at Leuven University in Belgium to analyze the contents and potentially recreate the historic Guinness recipe from the 1800s.
- The Mindoro likely holds an entire case of beer that experts suggest may still be drinkable, offering recovered artifacts as a unique connection to how humans lived during the 1800s.
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Shipwreck Divers Discovered a 162-Year-Old Bottle of Guinness Brewed During the Reign of Queen Victoria—and They Want to Take a Swig
The beer was preserved in a sealed glass bottle and may be safe to sample. The team is also hoping to sequence the DNA of the yeast to recreate what the stout would have tasted like in the 19th century
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A 162-year-old Guinness was pulled from a shipwreck. Scientists are fascinated by what's inside.
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A diver finds a 162-year-old Guinness bottle. It's still filled. Only: Do you really want to know what a beer from 1864 tastes like?
Divers hold a sealed Guinness bottle in the English Channel from 1864 – and want to re-breathe the historic stout using yeast DNA.
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