I want to have a 200-year-old Sunken Ship Ale

I like beer a lot (this apparently means that I'm easy), and I typically pick up on any beer news that pops up in my daily blog reading. One story that I recently came across involves researchers drinking the oldest drinkable beer. Researchers tasted samples of 200-year-old beer found in a Baltic Sea shipwreck, which they said had "burnt notes" and was "quite acidic." Yum!


They are doing some cool things with the beer, besides daring each other to drink it. They are trying to identify if the yeast used in brewing is still alive, and if not, what are similar modern yeasts. The purpose is to try to recreate the beer's recipe. I'm sure once they do, you'll see it on tap at Dogfish Head's brew pubs (they make all those off-center ales, so why wouldn't they make something like this too?). If so, I'll order a pint and give it a new home at the bottom of my belly (after all, that's where it belongs).



PS - To be clear, Dogfish head isn't planning on making the sunken ship's beer, I was just saying that it seems up their ally. That is all.