In Photos: Carlsberg Remakes Its 19th-Century Lager

Old recipe

Carlsberg Beer Bottle — (Image credit: eskay | Shutterstock.com)

A strange find

Carlsberg Historic Beer — (Image credit: Megan Gannon for Live Science)

Three beer bottles like this one were found during construction at Carlsberg’s historic brewery in Copenhagen. Still sealed, the bottles were full of their original contents, including live yeast.

Live yeast

Brewers at Carlsberg isolated live yeast from the bottle and cultivated it in the lab.

Historic beermaking

They also had to dig into the company’s archives for historic beer recipes.

[Read full story about the historic beer]

Tasting ceremony

Carlsberg invited journalists to its Copenhagen headquarters to taste the brew.

Tapping the cask

Carlsberg's head brewer, Erik Lund, pours the recreated beer out of a cask.

Finished product

The beer was quite different—sweeter and more malty — compared to Carlsberg’s Pilsner lager of today.

[Read full story about the historic beer]

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Megan has been writing for Live Science and Space.com since 2012. Her interests range from archaeology to space exploration, and she has a bachelor's degree in English and art history from New York University. Megan spent two years as a reporter on the national desk at NewsCore. She has watched dinosaur auctions, witnessed rocket launches, licked ancient pottery sherds in Cyprus and flown in zero gravity. Follow her on Twitter and Google+.