45 million year old yeast BEER!

[lucasszy]

Cheers All,

So I was reading the latest issue of Wired today, and saw and awesome article about a brewery that made a beer using yeast that was extracted from amber that is about 45 million years old!

Check out their site as well as the awesome write up in Wired!

Cheers

Lucas

Fossil Fuels Brewing Co.

Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast

 

[lucasszy]

Next month a local bar should have some on tap! I'll post when it happens!

Lucas

 

[IXVolt]

Interesting...

 

[thedigitale]

Very cool stuff. I signed up on their website for updates.

 

[Catch-22]

Now if they could only extract dinosaur dna from mosquitos trapped in amber and then start a theme park where people could interact......

 

[mrtrav]

Wow, this looks pretty cool. It looks like they are having a release party in Manteca on Sunday the 26th. I might have to check this out.

 

[HOOTER]

Now if they could only extract dinosaur dna from mosquitos trapped in amber and then start a theme park where people could interact......

Brilliant! That would make a great movie.

 

[z987k]

I think I read that somewhere to:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/wired-magazine-prehistoric-yeast-beer-128908/

 

[Kauai_Kahuna]

All I know is I don't really take care of them, I just wash them, add some cooled wort, them in sanitized plastic soda bottles, take the sucker out the day before brewing, and even after 6 months its alive. I just degass, allow air in as I'm heating my water, airate, and they always come through and make great beer for me.
Hey I think I have some "cry havoc" from over a year ago. May want to try that.