100 year old beer found in river bank

SAN ANTONIO -- When Collin Lindsey followed a local archaeologist for a job-shadowing assignment recently, he had no idea he might get a taste of San Antonio's history.

Collin, an eighth-grader at Legacy Middle School, spent a day washing and handling artifacts at the University of Texas at San Antonio's Center for Archaeological Research and became so taken with an old, corked bottle found at the River Walk extension project that he went home, did some research and came back with a theory: The yellow liquid sloshing inside was likely century-old beer, brewed by a predecessor to the Lone Star Brewing Co.

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The bottle is stopped with a Hutchinson spring stopper, patented in 1879, said Jon Dowling, a project archaeologist at UTSA. It also lacks seams on the lip found in older bottles, dating it between 1879 and 1907.

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"When Collin turns 21, he's going to come back and sample the beer," Dowling joked.

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