We tried 48 year old beer today.

[McHaven]

Sooo. How's that yeast coming? Any sign of growth?

^This

 

[spam]

great job! thanks for sharing!

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

Sooo. How's that yeast coming? Any sign of growth?

more of this^.

 

[Revvy]

Bill's in Iowa til Friday, so I won't have an answer to the harvesting issue till then.

 

[Pivzavod]

Revvy you should get your Seth Rogen look-a-like friend to judge at next years HBT competition

 

[nukinfuts29]

he does look like seth rogan hahaha

 

[petey_c]

you have moved into the age of fine scotch

Yeah, I think that I've moved into the arena of "old" scotch, not "fine" scotch...

 

[Revvy]

Revvy you should get your Seth Rogen look-a-like friend to judge at next years HBT competition

Maybe.

Funny, since he and I have been brewing and hanging out over the last year, I haven't entered any beers in any contests he's judged. I didn't brew much around my surgery and missed pretty much all the contest deadlines. He's tasted every brew I've brewed over the last year and a half or so, but not "officially."

It will be interesting to see if he ends up doing any of my beers when I get back to entering them, and if he'd recognize them.

His girlfriend often stewards for the categories he judges so she'd probably see my name on the entries before he did....interesting.

As an aside, he's tasted my Rye Kentucky Common and really wants me to enter it in category 23. He really loved it.

 

[DoubleAught]

Subscribed

 

[whoptbird]

Eager to see what happens with this yeast.

 

[Pivzavod]

@ Revvy - You can do it! Go for it!!!

 

[Toga]

It will be most excellent if you are able to roust up some yeast from that old bottle. I'm curious to see if it comes out.

 

[Revvy]

FYI, I just got around to putting my Kentucky Common Recipe in the database.

I just was thinking it might be interesting to try brewing it with this yeast if it's viable.

 

[Revvy]

Bad news folks, the yeast never took off.

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

Bad news folks, the yeast never took off.

oh, that sucks man. sorry to hear it.

 

[Zamial]

Bad news folks, the yeast never took off.

That is sad. If you still plan to go to the brewery site you may want to try to harvest some wild yeast from there. That would still make for a pretty interesting beer and story.

 

[wedge421]

Wow you guys were brave!

 

[JonK331]

Sorry to hear that the yeast didn't take off but wow what a story. i love the names of the beers they made "Sebewaing Beer, an Old Stock Ale, and Sport Beer, as well as Golden Pheasant beer." I think I'm going to have to make a "sport beer."

 

[Denny]

Bad news folks, the yeast never took off.

Too bad, but not a huge surprise.

 

[Joppo]

I'm not sure if any of you read about this, but divers found 170 years old beer from Finnish coast.
Unfortunately I didn't get to taste it
Baltic sea shipwreck's 170-year-old beer finally cracked open by scientists | Mail Online

 

[Devo9]

Awesome! I can only hope I am lucky enough to find something 1/2 as amazing as that!

 

[Raggedwood]

Awesome dude, sorry it was gross, but still.

 

[ralex999]

Sam Adam's Millium and it's Utopia is barrel aged then racked into bottles for a target of 25 years aging in the bottle. Some old records I dug up out of the 1850's indicate that the optimum for aging beer was around 7 years and with anything over 2 years being "really mellow" I am not sure it's worth $150 a bottle, but for "flat" beer in a brandy snifer, Utopia is quite pleasing. I really would like to get my hands on a bottle of 12 year old beer aged in a bourbon or French white oak Barrel. Can't even imagine what that would taste like. Great post guys, I really enjoyed it.

 

[lnd8]

Love the label

 

[critch]

good find revvy!

martin cornell(english beer writer) got to try something a little older...

http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/an-1875-arctic-ale-tasting/

 

[cdeme123]

Watch, some collector or something will come out tell you they would have paid $10k per bottle if you hadn't opened them. You're brave. Great find though. I should go to more estate sales looking for stuff like that.

Cheers

 

[Photog]

The brewery was located here, 43.731681, -83.447522. and there is nothing left of it.

One interesting thing is that the brewery had a tap on the outside where the community could get their beer there free. Sebewaing water tastes horrible and the beer was a way to mask the taste of the water. Sebewaing is a german town and they love their beer.

I have a couple of bottles of it if you know a collector willing to pay. lol.

 

[shoreman]

I think I have a pack of the golden pheasant labels at my house - got them off of ebay a long time ago if you are interested in them

 

[Oldskooler]

Nice.

I've actually had a beer called Golden Pheasant, but it's a Czech pils.

Actually it is a Slovak beer Zlatý Bažant witch translates to Golden Pheasant I spent a summer in Bratislava working and drank a lot of it. I thought it was excellent

 

[unionrdr]

I still have many cousins on mom's side in Bratislava. I'd love to get over there to visit.