Scientists analyze 1840s-era bottles recovered from beneath the Baltic Sea
23.02.2015
Early-19th-century beer has “vinegary, goaty, and soured milk flavors,” at least after aging at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for about 170 years, according to a new study (J. Agric. Food Chem. 2015, DOI: 10.1021/jf5052943). In what turned out to be something of an archaeological booze cruise, divers retrieved beer bottles from a ship that sunk in the 1840s near Finland’s Åland Islands.