HEINEKEN MAY HELP RE-MAKE THE WORLD’S OLDEST KNOWN BEER?
December 1st, 2010
BY JOHN PAGNI
Heineken may become a partner in a licence deal based on recreating the receipe from four beer bottles found on a wreck in Finland's Åland Sea last July - along with the world's oldest champagne.
"At this point we believe they are the oldest bottled beers in the world that can be drunk," said Rainer Juslin, of the autonomous Åland islands government, which will decide their fate and rights if tests at Finland's VTT Technical Research Centre reveal the yeast is remains alive or dormant. If it is dead, the project dies too.
Unlike the ...
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