19TH CENTURY RECREATED BEER ON SALE THIS SUMMER
April 12th, 2014
FINLAND'S Stallhagen brewery is recreating French beer found aboard an 1840s shipwreck in the Baltic Sea in 2010 (along with 145 champagne bottles). The company will sell 2,000 0.6-litre bottles of Stallhagen Historic Beer 1842 (approx abv 4.5%) brewed by a specialist team at Hogeschool Gent, Belgium, who developed a recipe based on five French beer bottles found on the wreck, which includes a wild yeast ingredient. Each bottle will bear a numbered label and be corked champagne-style with a muselet (cage) and come in a handmade wooden box. Stallhagen, as the ...
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