Sunken Treasure: Scientists Taste 170-Year-Old Champagne Found in Shipwreck

news.binodon24live.com ^ | August 29, 2022 | Liz Leafloor

[SunkenCiv]

(probably has a slight sodium chloride finish)

Branding on the corks helped identify the origins of the 170-year-old champagne.

Credit: Jeandet et al./PNAS/Visit Aland.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the link, to another of my favorite FReepers.

[oldvirginian]

“Leather and wet dog, empyreumatic, grilled, spicy, smoky, and leathery, together with fruity and floral notes,”

Damn!
Now the hipsters will be slugging it down like it actually tastes good.
Don’t believe it?
They’ve kept Pabst Blue Ribbon going.
Damned hipsters, can’t stand’em.

[SunkenCiv]

Not sure the hipsters actually admit to liking PBR though.

[kvanbrunt2]

“Leather and wet dog, empyreumatic, grilled, spicy, smoky, and leathery, together with fruity and floral notes,”>>>Just like Carona beer.

[WMarshal]

I am certain that this champagne tastes like a fart of itself.

[Songcraft]

After the tasting assessment phase, and the intense analysis, and many brilliant, inciteful discussions, the scientists decided to examine the label, and from that effort, they developed a working hypothesis concerning the reason for the "leather and wet dog" taste they detected in the liquid they consumed.

     

[AnalogReigns]

I had some 20 year old bottled Guinness before. It wasn’t all that bad, actually. Little bit of cardboard, but otherwise, it was Guinness.

[SunkenCiv]

Leather and wet dog just screams “AOC”.

[sit-rep]

how do they know that wasnt the original, and intended taste??

[Songcraft]

That was her old job.   (I think.)

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Pabst is ironic beer. Hipsters drink it because it’s the cheap stuff at old-man bars and a nose-thumb at beer snobs.

[RedMonqey]

My Pop enjoyed PBR and he was no hipster.

I’d rather er have a Miller.

[lee martell]

Was it anything like Miller’s High Life: the Champagne of bottled beers?

[TChad]

Empyreumatic: being or having an odor of burnt organic matter as a result of decomposition at high temperatures.

I'll pass, thanks.

[dfwgator]

Pabst is ironic beer.

Frank Booth agrees.

[TChad]

Looks like an updated “Pure Old Panther Piss.”

[kiryandil]

I had some 20 year old bottled Guinness before. It wasn’t all that bad, actually. Little bit of cardboard, but otherwise, it was Guinness.

I keep forgetting about the bourbon barrel aged stout in the basement.

It's lost a little fizz over the last 20 years, but still good.

[kiryandil]

PBR Extra at 6.5 ABV.

Pretty good.

[telescope115]

They lost me at wet dog…