Oldest Beer Brewed from Shipwreck's 220-Year-Old Yeast Microbes

Yeast microbes from the world's oldest bottle of beer — a 220-year-old bottle found in one of Australia's earliest shipwrecks — are being used to create a new, modern beer with the characteristic taste of the 18th-century brew.

via Live Science http://www.livescience.com/56814-oldest-beer-recreated-from-shipwreck-yeast.html