Yo ho ho and a bottle of beer. Scientists in Finland have analyzed two different beers recovered from an 1840's shipwreck in the Baltic Sea to see if they could figure out how the beers were made.

Unlike some notable examples of booze that were stored in ideal conditions (if you need whisky to last a century, skip the wine cellar and go with in an insulated box in Antarctica), the bottles recovered from the shipwreck were never intended to be stored in a watery grave. And let's face it, in general, beer does not age well. But when divers brought the beer bottles up from the shipwreck, one of them broke, and the divers reported that the liquid looked and tasted like beer. So instead of giving up on the beer bottles as a libation lost to time, scientists decided to run a chemical analysis on the remnants of the beer in two of the bottles to see what they were made of.