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Not the SS Oregon
The biz never sleeps at American Craft Beer. And here’s some more of what’s been happening in the beer world while you were drinking your way through the weekend.
Jurassic Beer! (Cobleskill, New York) – Tapping concepts similar to cloning dinosaurs like they did in Jurassic Park, biotechnology students at the State University of New York at Cobleskill are attempting to extract yeast from a bottle of beer that was recovered from the shipwrecked SS Oregon which sank 133 years ago
The doomed ship was in route from Liverpool, England, to New York City on March 14, 1886, when it collided with a schooner and sank near Fire Island, according to the AP.
Bill Felter, of Serious Brewing, acquired the bottle from a customer who owns an assortment of artifacts recovered from the SS Oregon. And if the SUNY/ Cobleskill students are successful in thier effort to extract yeast from the more than 133-year-old relic, the brewery plans to craft a new brew using it.
Words To Drink By (Boulder, CO) – “Growth for the craft brewing industry is adapting to the new realities of a mature market landscape.” Bart Watson, Chief Economist / Brewers Association
World Of Beer Closes A Second Location In NOLA (New Orleans, LA) – World of Beer (WOB) a Tampa, Florida chain of craft bars with more than 70 locations, has failed not once, but twice, to establish a foothold in NOLA according to the New Orleans Advocate.
Renowned for the 500+ Beers that it offers, WOB first expanded into the New Orleans’s Metairie neighborhood in 2014 and lasted two years before closing.
World of Beer’s second location in NOLA’s trendy Warehouse District opened its doors in the summer of 2015 and quietly turned off its lights last week.
