Determining recipes for some of the world's oldest preserved beers

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 14:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Some breweries have taken to resurrecting the flavors of ages past. Adventurous beer makers are extrapolating recipes from clues that archeologists have uncovered from old and even ancient brews found at historical sites. Now scientists have analyzed some of the oldest preserved beer samples from an 1840s' shipwreck to try to provide insight into how they were made.

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