In a sequestered laboratory in Central Copenhagen , the brewmasters behindCarlsberg beerhave spent the respectable part of a year potter with 130 - year - old barm , turn over through archived recipes , and play beer - Supreme Being in ways that would makeJurassic Park - earned run average Jeff Goldblum furious and plausibly lead him to say " uhhh " a fortune .
These tall , inexplicably beautiful Scandinavian scientists essentially pulled a full - blown Michael Crichton move and cloned a lager from 1883 – take a sample from one of the first " complete yeast " beers in the world ( the barm is " saccharomyces pastorianus , " if you need to get annoyingly specific about it ) , and then following formula and stipulation from the era to play the brew as faithfully as potential . The end game wasRe - Brew , Carlsberg ’s authentic recreation of a 19th - century beer , recently dug up in pristine shape from a dusty Danish basement . It was unveiled at a recent dinner party at the Carlsberg Museum , held to commemorate the 140th day of remembrance of Carlsberg ’s inquiry lab .
So , it was n’t exactly cloning … per se . But the only way I can wrap my feeble head around science is by comparing it to ' XC movies , so here we are . It sound a little complicated , correct ? Well , it was . But , to paraphrase the great Goldblum , " Denmark … uh … always chance a fashion . "
Wil Fulton
Head beer maker Erik Lund ( pictured above , tapping that sucker at the official launching , a few hours before dinner party ) said he was " fantastically queasy " for the first public tasting , because minute but detectable variations in the beer could have occurred when the oak cask was moved from theJacobsen Lab(their research adroitness ) to the the Carlsberg Honorary Residence where the sampling consider place . Naturally , his vexation ended up unfounded .
When the beer was rain cats and dogs after some well - warranted plug , it came out legato and signally … normal . It was definitely on the bitter side , but hey – let ’s see how you sample when you ’re 130 years former , crony . After his transportation trouble were gentle , Lund say he was highly pleased with how it came out , and the ardent reception it take in from the room full of professional beer toper .
by and by that evening , over dinner , the Crown Prince of Denmark incur an honorary bottled variation of the Re - Brew , and seemed pleased with it – at least I think he was proud of , because I was not allowed to approach or take pictures of him . Though he does seem like a decent dude . We made heart contact lens . Do n’t tell anyone .
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They did n’t have a T - Rex , but they had a damn good , 130 - year - previous beer . Hopefully one day , you ’ll be able-bodied to taste it , too .
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