Posted on 06/02/2005 10:34:15 AM PDT by blam
Archaeologists' intoxicating find
By David Fuller
BBC News
The bottles were in good condition, but the liquid inside was not
Archaeologists searching for remains of a city's medieval past have made an intoxicating discovery - a cache of World War II beer. The hundred-or-so bottles of lager buried beneath Southampton's Guildhall Square were still capable of developing a head when they were opened.
It is thought they had been stored in the cellar of an off-licence which was destroyed in the Blitz.
The routine dig was to study the site before a new arts centre was built.
Pete Cottrell, the dig leader, was hoping to find evidence of a medieval leper hospital known to have been in the area.
He said the bottles were in very good condition, but the liquid inside was not.
"I think you'd be very ill if you drank that, it's absolutely rank."
Some of the bottles have now been handed to the city's museum, while the rest has been reburied.
Because it beats the crap out of Bud and PBR.
I discovered this fact during a camping trip when we put the bottles into a mountain stream to cool. It all turned skunky, but we drank it anyway.
Put the bottle down and slowly back away.
maybe the temp is too low?
"Drats.
Too bad it didn't age well.
But it is an interesting find.
Wonder what else they managed to find besides the bottles?"
Hopefully no female mummies, Bubba would be flying in tonight.
LOL!
Thanks for small miracles, otherwise that would be true if they had found female mummies.
I could see the drooling one doing such.
Good to know about this. We keep ours in the old Mormon built cool house in the side of the irrigation ditch bank.:
Screen print of the cool house by Brad Teare
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