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The world’s oldest beer has been recreated
In the summer of 2010 five bottles of beer that lay 50 metres down on the seabed for about 170 years were salvaged from a shipwreck outside Föglö in Åland’s outer archipelago.
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Ship wreck
The oldest champagne found at the bottom of the sea
In the summer of 2010 a shipwreck was discovered in Föglö in Åland’s outer archipelago. The wreck contained 145 bottles of champagne and five bottles of beer from the 1840s.
The wreck’s valuable hidden cargo
On 16 July the news was published that “the world’s oldest champagne” had been found in Åland.
