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170-Year-Old Shipwreck Beer Tastes Like Goat


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Spending close to 200 years at the bottom of the ocean is hardly the ideal recipe for an award-winning beer; this beverage generally does not improve with age, let alone when exposed to seawater. But while the brews recovered from an 1840s shipwreck may now smell like stinky cheese and taste like goat, an analysis of the compounds inside the vintage beers revealed that they had a similar composition to modern day lagers and ales and therefore probably didn’t taste that dissimilar to today’s suds.

Although slightly older beer has been discovered previously, according to the authors of the study, this is the first time that chemical analyses have been performed on beer this old. Their findings have been published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Read more here:

http://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/170-year-old-shipwreck-beer-tastes-goat-and-smells-rotting-cabbage

BLECK! Who would even think to taste that?!?! Just ew. :no:

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Ehhhh....fresh beer tastes like goat to me as it is.

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Buds secret recipe found

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I think beer tastes like goat anyway. Bitter, soapy, sour goat. As far as I'm concerned, beer is a waste of good water.

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Unfortunately, 170-year-old goats do not smell like beer. Even worse, I would have volunteered to drink it too, and I would have finished it.

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Ehhhh....fresh beer tastes like goat to me as it is.

You must not have had a finely crafted German beer like St. Paulie Girl. Then again, since I've never eaten goat, who knows.
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You must not have had a finely crafted German beer like St. Paulie Girl. Then again, since I've never eaten goat, who knows.

A friend of mine made a home brew pumpkin beer, which was slightly palatable... but other than that I haven't tried any "good" beers that I know of. I don't drink often, and when I do it's usually wine coolers or something like long island iced tea.

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I'd probably still drink it, you know, for science.

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