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Beer made from a yeast 45 million years old will soon be hitting taps in California.
Northern California microbrewer Stumptown Brewery is already selling two brews made with the yeast, extracted from a prehistoric piece of amber found in Burma. But as early as next month, Fossil Fuels Brewing Co. plans to distribute two others made with the yeast on a larger scale.
Don't expect to be drinking mead when you down one of the company's wheat or "Ancient Ales."
"In the world of microbiology, 45 million years doesn't cause a lot of changes," Chip Lambert, the president of Fossil Fuels Brewing Co., of Oakland, Calif., told Slashfood on Wednesday. "We call this the mother of all modern yeasts, but it's just a 45-million-year-old mom."
Find out where to find the prehistoric brew after the jump.
The yeast colony, grown from samples extracted from prehistoric amber, do different things than their modern cousins in the brewing department, he says.
"We've certainly noticed a couple of different characteristics in its sugar assimilation and a couple of different characteristics in how it brews," Lambert says. "It's not that much different from modern brewing yeast, but it's enough different that it really adds unique flavors and brews in a pretty unique way."
Stumptown has already experimented with the yeast in its X.P. and XPort brews. But Kelley Brothers Brewing Co. in Manteca, Calif., will begin brewing on a commercial scale with the yeast this month, Lambert says. The company will use the X.P. recipe for the Ancient Ale, according to Stumptown.
Fossil Fuels Wheat beer and Fossil Fuels Ancient Ale should be ready for distribution in the California Bay Area by September, he says. It will only be available in kegs.
"We just hope that it gets out there and everybody enjoys it because it is unique and it is very good," Lambert says.
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8-05-2009 @11:15PM meh said... i liked the story when i read it on Wired. you know, the whole story.
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8-06-2009 @8:04AM Wren said... I wouldn't expect to drink mead, especially since mead isn't beer. It's a completely distinct beverage brewed from honey. If you've ever tasted mead, and it's obvious you haven't, you'd know the difference. A little background research would be just lovely next time.
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8-06-2009 @8:14AM richard said... since the main selling point is 45 million year old yeast one would have to trust that they, in fact
are using this yeast.
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8-06-2009 @8:15AM richard handwerk said... main selling point: 45 yo yeast.
would have to believe they actually
are using this yeast.
how to prove it?
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8-06-2009 @8:29AM realamerican said... Isn't this kind of dangerous? Yeast grows rampantly under the right conditions and causes many different kinds of problems wit the body human. Yeast can mutate easily also. (It is a spore you know.)
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8-06-2009 @9:10AM Dave said... I thought the main ingredient was water, which is about 4 billion years old.
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8-06-2009 @9:23AM Keith J. Mohrhoff said... Wren: True, in the strictest sense, mead is different from ale or lager but, in ancient times, mead was often mixed with ale to kill the bitter taste--especially, when the ale was being used medicinally.
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8-06-2009 @6:34PM atomichno said... Great movie plot, the monstor prehistoric yeast contains the Jesus gene, which turns everyone who drinks the beer straight.
No, seriously, I got your yeast right here!! Grows between my toes, it'll ferment in ways you cannot imagine!! No really , for real!!! It's not like mead at all!!
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8-06-2009 @9:44AM tony4christ2 said... I found a rock in my backyard and I'm calling it a 40 billion year old rock...or no...maybe 10 million would be more beleivable. Hey, while were making things up...why not?? God's creation is not that old just because people through out numbers.
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8-06-2009 @10:01AM algonquin j. calhoun said... ...so much for the freshness date on the bottle...
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8-06-2009 @10:17AM Gina said... Yes, and hopefully it won't kill anyone in the long term, too! Geezzz..
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8-06-2009 @11:07AM Roy Bardowell said... BIG DEAL - I Drink a beverage with a 2 billion year history.....WATER
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8-06-2009 @11:06AM mesaman said... I'll stick to no-lead 87 octane. Probably tastes about the same. Am I naive enough to believe a 45 million year old yeast is significant? Does California suck? Sounds like some left-over hippy from the Haight Avenue District got lucky.
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8-06-2009 @11:26AM Jason said... ...i actually had the stuff about a year ago. it was okay. which says a lot, i suppose. the fact that beer made from yeast that old tastes fine is pretty amazing.
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8-06-2009 @11:35AM Randy T said... good idea, try it out on the california lab rats first!!!
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8-06-2009 @11:39AM TED said... There is no way anyone can prove that anything is 45 million years old.
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8-06-2009 @11:44AM Dudley Haas (Wrinkle Faced Betty's Husband) Wacko, Taxes said... As a retared beer distributor, I reccomend this beer to anyone. It's less filing and don't fill you up and won't let you down. I done sprouted two hairs out of the B-9 mol eon my 4-head, but the tippity top of my head is still bald as an eagle. Oh well, I can always comb my mole since it's got a few hairs.
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8-06-2009 @11:44AM TED said... There is no way that anyone can prove that anything is 45 million years old. Making claims like that is stretching the truth. Why would anyone beleive that anything else that is claimed in these ads would be the truth?
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8-06-2009 @12:13PM mesaman said... Hey! This blog is gettin' to be fun. I carbon dated a frog turd to 8,732,211 years, one week, and two days. I think it ought to be a Guiness record. At least worth a pint, eh?
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8-06-2009 @12:23PM Dudley Haas said... I'm an ole fossel, so I like beer that's fueled by fossels. It fills me up, yet don;t slow me down.
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