date:May 23, 2012
ing bacteria.
Since 2010, VTT received funding from the Government of land to study the composition of the shipwreck beer and identify the type of yeast used to brew it.
The researchers aimed to show what an early 19th-century beer was like, and whether its production process could be reverse engineered and the beer replicated, as well as isolating living microbes.
Golden liquids in the bottles were identified as beer due to the presence of malt sugars, aromatic compounds and hops typical