WHEN people think of shipwrecks it generally evokes images of sunken treasure such as gold coins or old bottles of spiced rum, but rarely have brewers looked upon it with view to cultivating a new beer. A 133-year-old bottle of suds brought up from the shipwrecked SS Oregon might change...
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WHEN people think of shipwrecks it generally evokes images of sunken treasure such as gold coins or old bottles of spiced rum, but rarely have brewers looked upon it with view to cultivating a new beer.
A 133-year-old bottle of suds brought up from the shipwrecked SS Oregon might change all that however, with biotechnology students at the State University of New York determined to extract the yeast to create a brand new brewski.
The news follows an Australian brewer last year successfully producing beer from yeast recovered from a shipwreck.
Sure makes a tinny of Tooheys Old look pretty lame now, right?
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