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

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

[Songcraft]

They probably both have subtle, but distinctive variations in the bouquet or aroma, which only genuine liquid connoisseurs among the scientists would be able to detect!     :-)

[31R1O]

Leather, barnyard and smoky? Sounds like blanc de noir.

[TChad]

That’s one “liquid” tasting I’m just not qualified to attend. I do know some dogs who might be up to the task. No panthers, unfortunately.

[Mogger]

Dogfishead IPA 120.

IMHO, horrid when fresh.

Aged 5 years or more, sweet, delicious, and around 22% alcohol.

You just want to smile, crawl under the table and snooze.

[Paal Gulli]

I never heard of a bottle of wine that spent anywhere near that length of time underwater that hadn’t turned rancid.

[kiryandil]

LAged 5 years or more, sweet, delicious, and around 22% alcohol.

Stiffer than wine!

[oldvirginian]

“Not sure the hipsters actually admit to liking PBR though.”

They might not like it but they sure drink it.
I think it’s one of those things they do without questioning because it’s part of the hipster culture. Like a certain sort of people thought bell bottoms and parachute pants were just the Bee’s Knees.

[oldvirginian]

“My Pop enjoyed PBR and he was no hipster.
I’d rather er have a Miller.”

Your Pop was a different generation. I refuse to judge his generation by today’s standards. So Pop gets a pass.
I’m with you on the Miller, killed many an 8 pack of the pony bottles in my day.

[oldvirginian]

You and me both.🤮

[FLNittany]

So did Ben Hogan:

[offduty]

Damn and I just dumped a whole bunch of Hofbreu and Stella because it was in the garage fridge from about 10 years ago. Somehow it got pushed to the back and was never consumed.if I didn’t have to move the fridge, it would probably be there another decade. Did t taste it though. But the ground hog in our backyard had a wonderful weekend.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I grew up in Milwaukee. Many of my Uncles worked for Miller Brewing.

Since they couldn’t AFFORD the beer they were brewing, they drank Pabst and Old Milwaukee. ;)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember reading, decades ago, in National Geographic of scientists doing the same to sealed bottles of wine from the sunken city of Port Royal. I believe the wine was described as “skunky”.

[SunkenCiv]

They said, “Arrrrrrr, this wine be skunky, arrrrrrr.”

[JimRed]

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

Did you mean ICONIC?

I remember part of one of their singing radio commercials from way back when...

Pabst won the Blue Ribbon
in 1893
Now it is here, the original beer
no longer a memory

[Lurker]

Great movie.

L