Copyright (c) 2026 Protz On Beer, by Roger Protz https://protzonbeer.co.uk/categories/old-beers-revived en-gb Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:58:00 BST A bottle of Guinness 162 years old has been brought to the surface from a ship wrecked off the coast near Dover. It's now being analysed to see if it still contains live yeast. If the beer is drinkable or can be brewed again it will give a fascinating insight into how beers tasted more than 150 years ago Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:58:00 BST https://protzonbeer.co.uk/news/2026/09/16/black-beauty-comes-up-from-the-deep https://protzonbeer.co.uk/news/2026/09/16/black-beauty-comes-up-from-the-deep Thomas Hardy's Ale has had a turbulent history like one of the author's Wessex novels. First brewed by Eldridge Pope in Dorchester, it moved to O'Hanlon's and then Meantime breweries, The classic English barley wine is now owned by an Italian drinks business and a new edition has been brewed by Hepworth in Sussex. Sun, 24 Nov 2024 13:18:00 GMT https://protzonbeer.co.uk/features/2024/11/24/thomas-hardy-return-of-the-native https://protzonbeer.co.uk/features/2024/11/24/thomas-hardy-return-of-the-native Des de Moor on the long history of beer brewed for the India trade in the 19th century and the difference between those historic brews and modern IPAs. He discusses the role of conventional brewers' yeast and such wild strains as Brettanomyces that would have given sharply different flavours to the Victorian styles Sun, 28 Jan 2024 12:33:00 GMT https://protzonbeer.co.uk/columns/2024/01/28/pale-ale-and-the-long-voyage-to-india https://protzonbeer.co.uk/columns/2024/01/28/pale-ale-and-the-long-voyage-to-india Brewmaster Derek Prentice, who worked for Truman's before joining Young's and then Fuller's, has helped the new Truman's Brewery in Hackney Wick to create an Export Pale Ale based on a Victorian recipe, using no fewer than eight hops and the original Truman's yeast Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:55:00 BST https://protzonbeer.co.uk/features/2014/10/18/beer-legend-prentice-brings-back-a-truman-pale-ale-from-victorian-times https://protzonbeer.co.uk/features/2014/10/18/beer-legend-prentice-brings-back-a-truman-pale-ale-from-victorian-times