100-year-old bottle of beer found at St Piran's church

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-26660405

100-year-old bottle of beer found at St Piran's church

A bottle of beer believed to be more than 100-years-old has been found at an ancient church in Cornwall.

The bottle, still containing some of the beer, was found at St Piran's Oratory, near Perranporth, which is believed to be among the oldest places of Christian worship in Britain.

St Piran is the patron saint of tin miners and the phrase 'drunk as a Perraner' also comes from the legend.

The beer will be analysed to see what brew was used.

A spokesman from St Austell Brewery said it was believed the bottle dated back to 1910 and was found in an "immaculate condition".

He added the bottle also had a swastika logo on the cap, a popular brewing symbol at the time.

Archaeologist James Gossip said the bottle was believed to have been left in the sand by a worker in 1910 when the oratory was encased in a concrete structure in an attempt to protect it from the encroaching sand and waves.

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[FBM]

Dismal saga of a wasted beer.

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Dismal saga of a wasted beer.

The bottle is empty now.

[Mysturji]

Past its best-before date.

[MiM]

They could do something like the microbrewery Stallhagen from the Åland island has done. Replicating a 200 year old beer found in a shipwreck.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/e ... -1.1289721

Couldn't find anything resent about it in English, but according to Finnish press they are now ready to sell about 2000 bottles for about 100€ each, and if the reception is good they might continue the manufacturing and start selling it for a more regular price.

BTW: the researcher referred to in the article is a very old and dear friend to me, whom I haven't met in ages. Didn't even now she had analysed that beer until I dug for that article.