Sealed Guinness Bottle from 1864 Mindoro Wreck Emerges in English Channel
TL;DR
Divers recovered a sealed Guinness Extra Stout bottle from the 1864 Mindoro shipwreck in the English Channel; the intact seal prompted researchers to consider testing the historic brew for potential revival via yeast DNA sequencing, while teams plan to recover more bottles and examine the ship’s manifest.
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