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I'd get it lab tested and reverse process the exact recipe.

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... and then let it age for 155 years?

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Where can I get a clone for this? Morebeer or AHB maybe?

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It sounds like the original Double IPA by the description.

I was listening to The Brewing Network's Sunday show and they were talking about drinking a bottle of 100+ year old beer. They said it tasted older but still drinkable and def. not 100 years old. I think it was Chris or Mike White from White Labs but not sure, it could have been one of the other guests. I think it was during the discussion about the Siebel Institute of Technology classes.

http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/archive/dwnldarchive08-12-07.mp3

There's another bottle from a later bottling in 1875 up for auction with a minimum bid of only $2,000
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320148850692


edit: The new listing has a "review" from 1889 that describes the beer thus: "The beer had a gravity of 1130 degrees with an alcohol content of around 11.25%." What scale is 1130 degrees?

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Just guessing, but maybe specific gravity = 1.130? Then a FG of 1.045 would give you 11.25% ABV. Not an unreasonable FG given the brewing conditions back then, I'd guess, but I don't know when the specific gravity scale came into vogue.

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Winning bid...$503,300 ???

Let's see, with kind of money, I could brew (assuming ten gallon AG batches) about...oh...1,845,433 bottles of EdWorts Haus Ale.

Not including the cost of propane.

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This one would probably not be very good to drink, it's in a clear bottle so has probably had way too much exposure to the light.

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I was bidding on that original bottle, but dropped out at $400k...I wanted to make sure I could re-use the bottle, and wasn't sure my wing capper would be able to seal it.

Meanwhile, I'm sticking a 1-liter swingtop of my most recent barleywine in a temp-controlled safe, and writing up a story about how I brewed it for the first manned Mars expedition. I figure my great-great-great-great grandchildren can make about $25 bazillion dollars (oops, I mean yuan) with it in 2150.

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Why does this thread show up on page 1 with the post above mine being 4 years old?

Edit:Cause Im stupid and didn't realize I was reading a thread I clicked on from another thread.