Tasting notes of a 137 year old beer

[Teromous]

What happened to the rest of the bottles? Were they put back or are they being kept in an archive of some kind? Is there such a thing as a beer archive? haha...that would be awesome...

 

[mrbowenz]

What happened to the rest of the bottles? Were they put back or are they being kept in an archive of some kind? Is there such a thing as a beer archive? haha...that would be awesome...

The rest of the bottles are now on display in Burton on Trent, in the National Brewery Centre, in England there are definitely beer archives and curators.

Welcome to The National Brewery Centre

 

[GodsStepBrother]

The atonement of this thread makes me cringe with jealousy.

 

[Timaithis]

Thanks Revvy !

Absolutely right, and it was terrific, talk about a "Born on date "

Look at it this way, we all have 5 senses: sight, smell, feel, hearing and taste. You can visit a museum and look, or maybe touch something old, listen to a vintage recording, and if you where lucky enough, maybe smell the inside of an ancient Pyramid... Only alcohol is something we can truly taste from the past, no food product would safely survive this length of time, it's the only thing from history we can experience by taste, and it's remarkable.

That is technically not true about alcohol being the only thing from history we can taste. Since you bring up the pyramids honey from them thousands of years old can still be tasted safely. Granted humans didn't make it so it doesn't have the same story to go with it like these beers do. But it is still would be really awesome to taste something that is all most as old as written paper language.

Anyway I really enjoyed the story. But I defiantly liked the history behind them more than the description. Even though I am torn between the enjoy as a beverage or enjoy in the bottle as a part of history. I would probably fall into the enjoy it as history camp. Regardless its still cool.

Edit: Also you can taste a lot of things from history depending on how adventurous you want to be if you don't care for taste or safety. I am sure that the ancient bog man might not taste as leathery as he looks. And the frozen mammoths of Siberia might make an interesting steak if there is a big enough part still left.

 

[bwomp313]

And the frozen mammoths of Siberia might make an interesting steak if there is a big enough part still left.

mmmmmmm...mammoth.