Steve1989MRE is a great channel, also Rhett and Link from Good Mythical Morning have eaten some REALLY REALLY old food items(as well as some questionable “food” items)
I've seen it all- no video on YT can top opening a 87- year old Jubilee ale with a Betty Boop-beeropener whilsth talking about the Norwegian concrete industry. Pure quality.
It was brewed by Ind Coope & Allsopp in Burton-on-Trent. They also did a Commonwealth Ale in 1953 for the the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as well as Arctic Ale, an 11 percent beer they made in the 1870's for an expedition to the north pole.
Burton is/was a massive town for brewery in the UK. Bass’ were based there and the UK arm of Coors is to this day. It has no other redeeming qualities, though, other than the fact I was born there. Total shit hole.
"It looks like a coca-cola that's been dredged up from the bottom of the ocean". And Stuart and Barry may be the only people on the planet that can make that comparison with confidence, having seen one.
3:51 - I've actually had some Coca-Cola dredged from the bottom of the ocean and it was fine. Well, to be fair the bottle was capped, I'd dropped it about 5 seconds earlier, and the ocean at that location was about 80 cm deep, but it's still a valid data point.
Coke bottles are always washing up on the Gulf of Mexico coast where I live. They’re always open though. Strangely always yellow liquid inside. Lots of shoes and gloves as well. Would you like some?
@@Bootleg_Jones - Bringing up rubbish from the ocean's floor is dredging; nothing in the definition requires that it be "buried in silt", it can simply be lying on top of sand, rock, whatever. You _could_ argue that my hand isn't technically a dredge, but it's 2022 and I have the right to self-identify however I want.
@@RFC-3514 I’ll give you credit for being more original than an attack helicopter joke but can we leave this out of our semi-regular viewing of watching ashens suffer from consuming out of date products?
I think I went past wheezing to making a sound like a strangled duck from laughing when I got to that part. It really is the distilled Ashens experience.
Back in those days, the thin seal under the bottle cap was made from cork. While cork will last in a bottle of wine for years, the cork under the crown cap on that beer is a very thin sheet and not a whole cork plug like in wine. Over time, it simply rotted away. So the bad flavor you tasted was most likely the cork that had decayed into the beer, plus the extreme oxidation that happened since the seal was destroyed by time. BTW, I run a brewery in the US and am somewhat of a beer historian.
Ive only seen one of those cork inlays in use recently, cant remember which craftbeer it was tho. Most beers I drink once and keep the cap to make into magnets.
For 87 years old, the label looks pristine, as if it was printed and attached this week. Along with the bottle. It would be interesting to know where/how he got hold of it.
That was my first thought. I've worked in wine for my whole career and have never seen a bottle that old with a label that intact and pristine. Along with the new-looking bottle. I suspect someone's got hold of some old caps.
My dad used to say that they were known as Ind Coop and All Slops. They were still around when I was kid, though they had dropped the Allsops by then. Their premier product was Long Life; "Specially brewed for the can". This of course led to ribaldry about the can in question not being the one it was sold in, but the one that it ended up being flushed down.
Yes, it was pretty bad back then, when you could taste the metal of the can more than the vaguely drinkable liquid within. Burton's TRENT Bitter was similarly thought of. Tho it was what got me drunk the first time when I was 13.
My dad called it that too. I think a half pint can of Long Life was my first ever alcoholic drink. New year's Eve when I was twelve. Tasted effing disgusting, but wouldn't any beer on taste buds more used to Kia Ora and Vimto?
Well... oxidation in beer leads to the presence of two off-flavours : so-called "wet cardboard", due to the oxidation of trace fatty acids from the malt that turn rancid, and maderization, i.e. oxidation of malt components such as complex sugars and melanoidin, which brings a sweetish sherry or port wine-like note, which, with prolonged aging, turns disturbingly mint-like in the finish. Malt oxidation also turns the beer noticeably darker. This possibly being a beer bottled with yeast, the degradation - or autolysis - of dead yeast cells may bring a wet dog / skunky / butane gas-like thiol note, which usually is covered up by glutamic acid - a strong umami, soy sauce-like note - also released by the torn dead yest cells.
Is this anything to do with Burton On Trent? BASS brewery was based there, believe the old time war lads would say 'goin for a Burton' when referring to a beer, our shopping centre is called 'Coopers Square' based on the brewing history aswell as the barrel making I believe? Seems all too much of a coincidence to have 'Coop' and 'Burton' on a beer bottle from way back when...
@@PlayDHDGaming Ind Coope was a Romford brewery that set up a brewery in Burton on Trent that in 1935 merged with Allsopp and sons Brewery of Burton on Trent.
@@harrier331 Knowledge isn't interest. An interest may be a start to knowledge but one can have knowledge without interest. Most brits know a bit about the royals because education, doesn't mean they care
It was a real missed opportunity to use strange Star Trek bottle opener from the Advent calendar. That bottle would have probably destroyed that though!
I rarely laugh out loud in my apartment but Ashen’s humour really gets me sometimes. That bit with the Norwegian concrete company probably made my neighbours concerned.
Yuke. This video is again a great example of Ashen’s fantastic talent. For those who don’t know who Ashen is, allow me to explain. He is a man who risks his health for our entertainment. This comment was left to help him with the algorithm.
Shucks, I was hoping maybe the alcohol and tight cap had preserved it. Not so, I guess. Thanks for taking another one for the team, Stuart… All the best in the new year…
That the Christies lot from 2014? Or do you have Worthpoint or something? Last sale I see is £10 for 2 in 2016. Edit* Just found one that went for £22 in November.
Description from a recent Christies auction... "Brewed in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee on His Majesty George V by Ind Coope and Allsop. This powerful dark ale is still alive displaying an oily fruit character and with a colour as black as the hobs of Hell. Stylistically comparable to Ind Coope's legendary 1875 Arctic Ale - the beer of choice of 19th century Polar explorers"
Some fortified wines can last that long if properly stored. Maybe a really strong ale that’s about as strong as wine. Not most ales. I respect Stuart for giving this one a try.
I would say 8 percent or more, and stored like wine at the same temperature. You need it to have a cork and not cap. Like the original Carlsberg brewery, had a storage cellar, and they had easter brew from 1965 that were drinkable. The one tasted it, said it was like port wine. And it was the last of two bottles in the world.
@@brostenen yes, needs to be corked and stored properly. Greene King had a Coronation Ale brewed for Edwards coronation, but he abdicated and it was never released. All the bottles at some point ended up being bricked in the cellar, only to be discovered about 15 years ago. I tried it at the beer shop I used to work at, and due to it being somewhere around 8% it tasted alright! Lots of oxidation, but that gave it raisin, marzipan, fruit cake notes.
@@OlliePooleCowley Exactly. In the city of Aalborg in Jutland, the local brewery did start making vault's around 1900 or something, but the same time they were finished, the owner of the brewery died. They were never used for storage. But they were used briefly for a jazz nightclub untill the firedepartment shut it down. That was around 1921 or something. Today it is closed off, because it is home to bats, that hipernate through winther.
I love ale but I feel like drinking just a sip of this would permanently ruin ale for me. It's like those drinks you have before becoming ill or hungover and you can never drink them again without feeling sick
Ashens, the first RUclips channel I ever subscribed to-you inspired me to smoke a 77 year old cigarette yesterday, and let me tell you this: it was a great experience. Happy new year, oh mighty master of RUclips.
Hate to break it to you, Stu, but according to (everyone's favourite reliable source of information) Wikipedia, HeidelbergCement is German, not Norwegian. And yes, I deliberately omitted the space, because that's how they format it.
Haven't checked out your channel for quite a while but I'm glad to see you're still into drinking/eating weird old stuff...that is as long as you're not taking too big health risks. I also like vintage ales though we don't get access to that many of them here in Sweden and they're mostly from the present year expecting people to personally do the storing and waiting required to make them old. That said I recently drank a Fuller's 2016 Vintage ale (bought in 2016) and it was sublime...too bad I can't get any more of those.
How come the label was in such staggeringly good condition? No yellowing or wear or anything. Without the look under the cap I'd have thought it was brand new.
@@MrAltheArtist it's mostly moisture. The yellowing (and also weakness) comes from the wood fibres breaking down over time and releasing acids that discolour the paper. This process is accelerated by the presence of water, although the acids produced by the breakdown also speed up further breakdown, as will the acids present on skin, and acids formed by the breakdown of oils deposited on the paper by skin. This is why many ancient books are handled with gloves and kept humidity and temperature-controlled environments. If you have a favourite book, look at the pages. They will be slightly yellower along the edges, where you touch paper to turn the page, compared to the rest of it. Sunlight will degrade the dyes used in the ink, something that's a huge problem for historical artworks, and unfortunately, a beloved photograph of a young me with my late grandfather.
@@RaunienTheFirst Oh interesting. I thought sunlight as that's what has happened to my books which were kept near a window. Then I suppose this beer bottle was kept in pretty good condition, I'd be interested as to where Ashens got it from.
1935 paper was mostly bleach and acid free. Often rag instead of wood too. There are some great examples in the museum at Wookey Hole paper mill. Pages in books hundreds of years old can look pretty new. I've got one from 1892 which I bought 40 years ago that's not yellowed at all, and some paperbacks from the early 30s that are similar.
Your videos aren’t particularly exciting or different, however your sense of humour and quick wit make them, Keep it up mate you always make me laugh pr if not smile.
"It looks like some coka cola thats been dredged up from the bottom of the ocean" Normaly id say thats a bit of a hyperbol but im pretty sure you've drank that before on camera
My dad was a plumber in the eighties in ind coopes brewery in Burton on Trent. Their overalls had ICBB (ind coopes burton brewery) embriodered on. They said it was for "i can't be bothered". The more you know. My whole family has worked burton breweries at some time or another.
Holy shit man, i used to binge your videos during olevels and now i'm done with uni and working. Good to see you're still eating gone off food for us HAHAHAHAHA
Queen Victoria was George V grandmother. Her son/his father Albert Edward, Prince of Wales became King Edward VII after the death of Victoria in 1901. George was third in the line of succession to the throne until his elder brother Prince Albert Victor died putting George directly in line for the crown. Edward VII died in 1910 and George V reigned until his death in 1936. George V was succeeded by his first son who was crowned King Edward VIII until his abdication of the throne with Wallace Simpson that same year. His brother become George VII who was succeeded by his daughter who became our current Queen Elizabeth II.
I've a bottle of Newcastle Brown from 2005. I've still got until 2092 before I can open it. But seeing as I'd have to live until I was well over 120 years old, I don't think I need to worry too much about it.
Actually, you were right the first time. It was a can of the original formulation of Coke Zero, found on a beach after who knows how long. The Pepsi was from the same episode and was a 20 year-old Star Wars tie in promotion.
ind coope is or was part of bass (charington). based in burton on trent. the water was marston, and weirdly the yeast once used is passed to marmite, just over the road, to make..... i know this due to living in a village nearby where a lot of people worked in these places.
Burton on Trent is the location of the Allsopp and sons Brewery. Ind Coope was a Romford brewery that set up production in Burton on Trent because of the quality of the water. The breweries merged in 1934 becoming Ind Coope and Allsopp LTD. The Alsopp name was dropped in 1959 and in 1970 Ind Coope became part of Allied Breweries. Probably the most well known Ind Coope beer was Double Diamond made from 1876 to 1996. The Allsopp brewery was re-established in 2021 by Jamie Allsopp as an independent brewery.
Wonder if Ashens is on a first name basis with the medical staff at his local emergency room yet. "Morning, Stuart!" *blergh* "Ate something horrible again?" *blergh!* "Room 8b. The nurse will see you in."
Ind Coope is now owned by Carlsberg Group, and most of its original breweries have since closed. Jamie Allsopp, great-great-great-great- great-grandson of Samuel, found the only remaining ledger containing the original Allsopp recipes and resurrected the Allsopp brand last year. A fitting punishment?
I found some bottles of commemorative ale for Charles and Diana 1981 in a charity shop on Guernsey and bought them to see what a 30 year old ale tasted like. One of the bottles survived without oxidising and tasted like fine tawny port!
Ashens is one of the only people who can say 87 year old ale isn't the oldest thing I've opened and even considered eating or drinking
I think Steve1989MREInfo is one of the few people who could challenge him on that
That's quite a cool claim to be honest
@@GamingXpaul2K10 ashens did almost consider eating those 130 year old olives
@@GamingXpaul2K10 Civil War hardtack vs 180 year old olives!
Steve1989MRE is a great channel, also Rhett and Link from Good Mythical Morning have eaten some REALLY REALLY old food items(as well as some questionable “food” items)
The chaos of attempting to open the bottle while Betty shrieked and laughed 😘👌
I've heard of dates like that..
SHUT UP BETTY
@@pseudodionizyareopagita8691
"BoopBoop Be Doop, Boop!"
*THUD*
😆
Sounded almost like Betty laughed at Ashens.
Ashens is at his best when things get a bit chaotic. For reference: Antonio Stella Bottom Tile.
I've seen it all- no video on YT can top opening a 87- year old Jubilee ale with a Betty Boop-beeropener whilsth talking about the Norwegian concrete industry. Pure quality.
YOu forgot the 180 year old bottle of Olives He got from a shipwreck from 1832
If this doesnt sum up ashens in one sentance idk what does
@@chrislemaster2695 Or the bottle of Corona Soda from the 1970s
And insulting the royal family no less. Scandalous!
Have you seen SteveMRE guy eat the 100+ year old beef?
It was brewed by Ind Coope & Allsopp in Burton-on-Trent. They also did a Commonwealth Ale in 1953 for the the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as well as Arctic Ale, an 11 percent beer they made in the 1870's for an expedition to the north pole.
Can't go without your beer in the Arctic.
Another wonderful piece of knowledge from Terry Hintz
Thumbs up for my home town Burton-upon-Trent 👍
@@Safetytrousers Ah yes, getting drunk in unfamiliar uncharted territory, what could go wrong?
Burton is/was a massive town for brewery in the UK. Bass’ were based there and the UK arm of Coors is to this day. It has no other redeeming qualities, though, other than the fact I was born there. Total shit hole.
"It looks like a coca-cola that's been dredged up from the bottom of the ocean". And Stuart and Barry may be the only people on the planet that can make that comparison with confidence, having seen one.
Beach coke amirite
3:51 - I've actually had some Coca-Cola dredged from the bottom of the ocean and it was fine. Well, to be fair the bottle was capped, I'd dropped it about 5 seconds earlier, and the ocean at that location was about 80 cm deep, but it's still a valid data point.
Coke bottles are always washing up on the Gulf of Mexico coast where I live. They’re always open though. Strangely always yellow liquid inside. Lots of shoes and gloves as well. Would you like some?
not sure it really counts a dredging it up unless it managed to get completely buried in silt before you picked it back up
@@Bootleg_Jones - Bringing up rubbish from the ocean's floor is dredging; nothing in the definition requires that it be "buried in silt", it can simply be lying on top of sand, rock, whatever.
You _could_ argue that my hand isn't technically a dredge, but it's 2022 and I have the right to self-identify however I want.
@@RFC-3514 hahahahahahhahahaahhahaa
@@RFC-3514 I’ll give you credit for being more original than an attack helicopter joke but can we leave this out of our semi-regular viewing of watching ashens suffer from consuming out of date products?
The chaos of attempting to open an 87 year-old bottle of ale while an even older cartoon character shrieks is why I watch Ashens.
I think I went past wheezing to making a sound like a strangled duck from laughing when I got to that part. It really is the distilled Ashens experience.
truly was
Which video did he originally have the bottle opener in? I think he found the voice in it didn't work originally?
@@grimTales1 maybe he fixed it?
@@grimTales1 it was in an amazing mystery box. He had to replace the batteries
Ashens wasn't there? I always believed he lived in every single time period and reality simultaneously
No, that's the sofa.
He will have been then, but he hasn't been then yet.
And consumed every kind of expired food, somehow.
Oh, he was alive at the time, he just wasn't there at that particular event. Might have been vacationing in Norway when it happened.
Well obviously but he can openly admit to that otherwise they'd be all sorts of questions and he would probably have to go into hiding
Back in those days, the thin seal under the bottle cap was made from cork. While cork will last in a bottle of wine for years, the cork under the crown cap on that beer is a very thin sheet and not a whole cork plug like in wine. Over time, it simply rotted away. So the bad flavor you tasted was most likely the cork that had decayed into the beer, plus the extreme oxidation that happened since the seal was destroyed by time. BTW, I run a brewery in the US and am somewhat of a beer historian.
What brewery?
Ooohh, I seem to remember those slivers of cork from the 70s.
I would love to talk about beer with you more. I'm a bit of an enthusiast.
@@joebaumgart1146 no. *(in jest)
Ive only seen one of those cork inlays in use recently, cant remember which craftbeer it was tho. Most beers I drink once and keep the cap to make into magnets.
Oh my god, the struggle of opening the beer combined with the shrieking of the Betty Boop opener was hilarious.
For 87 years old, the label looks pristine, as if it was printed and attached this week. Along with the bottle. It would be interesting to know where/how he got hold of it.
That was my first thought. I've worked in wine for my whole career and have never seen a bottle that old with a label that intact and pristine. Along with the new-looking bottle. I suspect someone's got hold of some old caps.
1:18 I’m sure a UK monarch dying shortly after a jubilee will never happen again…
Can we all just thank Stuart for his years of valuable content with regard to the european cement industry.
He does have concrete info. 🤪
@@brianm6337 you disgust me😂😂😂
My dad used to say that they were known as Ind Coop and All Slops.
They were still around when I was kid, though they had dropped the Allsops by then. Their premier product was Long Life; "Specially brewed for the can". This of course led to ribaldry about the can in question not being the one it was sold in, but the one that it ended up being flushed down.
Yes, it was pretty bad back then, when you could taste the metal of the can more than the vaguely drinkable liquid within. Burton's TRENT Bitter was similarly thought of. Tho it was what got me drunk the first time when I was 13.
"Ribaldry" is a word that really should be used more often.
My dad called it that too. I think a half pint can of Long Life was my first ever alcoholic drink. New year's Eve when I was twelve. Tasted effing disgusting, but wouldn't any beer on taste buds more used to Kia Ora and Vimto?
Good ol' pissner, eh?
(Yeah, it's a pilsner joke lol)
Today I learned, Stuart refers to his manhood as an orbital laser cannon.
And we should all be very afraid.
You monster. I read your comment before watching. I choked on my sandwich when he said it.
NO! Betty Boop is like 16
@@punkrockllama That's perfectly legal in a lot of countries
@@benbaselet2026 that's legal in the UK haha o_o
Well... oxidation in beer leads to the presence of two off-flavours : so-called "wet cardboard", due to the oxidation of trace fatty acids from the malt that turn rancid, and maderization, i.e. oxidation of malt components such as complex sugars and melanoidin, which brings a sweetish sherry or port wine-like note, which, with prolonged aging, turns disturbingly mint-like in the finish. Malt oxidation also turns the beer noticeably darker. This possibly being a beer bottled with yeast, the degradation - or autolysis - of dead yeast cells may bring a wet dog / skunky / butane gas-like thiol note, which usually is covered up by glutamic acid - a strong umami, soy sauce-like note - also released by the torn dead yest cells.
Okay, I think I understood all of that reasonably well... Now, could you explain the bad taste and, maybe, the discoloration?🤷♂️
That thing survived the depression,WW2 and the cold war
I enjoy the irony of of Ale celebrating British royalty out of a Guinness glass😂
It would be even more ironic if the glass was made in Scotland and the bottle made in Wales!
@McFlickers it is if you’re Alanis Morrissette 😁
And George V, last King of Ireland to boot .
@McFlickers
Why isn't it?
It's less irony and more trying to start another war/uprising
It was Ind Coope and Allsopp Ltd. My dad actually has a bottle that my gran gifted him for his 30th birthday
Weird how the "I" looks exactly like the "J"s
Is this anything to do with Burton On Trent? BASS brewery was based there, believe the old time war lads would say 'goin for a Burton' when referring to a beer, our shopping centre is called 'Coopers Square' based on the brewing history aswell as the barrel making I believe? Seems all too much of a coincidence to have 'Coop' and 'Burton' on a beer bottle from way back when...
@@nicolasroy8481 I and J used to be the same letter and a lot of Gothic typefaces never bothered properly distinguishing them
@@CntRational Oh interesting, didn't know about that
@@PlayDHDGaming Ind Coope was a Romford brewery that set up a brewery in Burton on Trent that in 1935 merged with Allsopp and sons Brewery of Burton on Trent.
I love the old packaging. "Jubilee Ale, what's in it? Ale, can't you read the label?"
This time, tho...
It was a Weird Ale.
Been a while since a classic terribly out of date food episode
2:19 - Of all sentences starting with "Let's take the top off, 87 year old...", the one that ends in "ale" is not the worst I can imagine.
*unravel...floppph-flump* "Like what ya see, sonny?!"
"yaaaAAAAAGGGHHHHhhh!"
"Let's take the top off, 87 year old..."
*Betty Boop giggles*
Given your extremely accurate recollection of Royal facts just off your butt, your knowledge of the Norwegian concrete industry must be encyclopedic
He said interest not knowledge
@@ludicrous5765 He said "I have as much interest in" Implying that he would also have as much knowledge in both subjects.
@@harrier331 Knowledge isn't interest. An interest may be a start to knowledge but one can have knowledge without interest. Most brits know a bit about the royals because education, doesn't mean they care
@@ludicrous5765 Education? That is pure nonsense. The UK's hostory is swept aside from a young age in an educational capacity.
@@harrier331 wut
Your bottle opener has better timing than some youtubers.
Especially a good portion of the gen z friendly youtubers.
We all learned a very valuable lesson today: that Ashens will put anything onto his tongue once.
20 dollars is 20 dollars
As long as there's vodka to be had afterwards
Burton on the bottle would be in reference to Burton Upon Trent, where Ind Coope & Allsopp used to have their Brewery, along with Bass and Marstons
Mmmm yes another poisonous black liquid for him to ingest.
As they say choose you poison, ashens likes his poison fermented.
It was a real missed opportunity to use strange Star Trek bottle opener from the Advent calendar. That bottle would have probably destroyed that though!
I think Dan kept all the advent calendar stuff.
And this bottle of beer is still not as old as the queen.
What is?
The queen is 10 years older
It’s also 1 year younger than Tom Baker and 7 years older than Tom Jones.
@@mgthestrange9098 11 years older than actor William (Sir Lancelot, Doctor Who) Russell!
The Queen is dead rip
"Looks like some Coca-Cola that was dredged out off the bottom of the ocean."
He would know, he ACTUALLY had one with Barry, the madman.
I rarely laugh out loud in my apartment but Ashen’s humour really gets me sometimes. That bit with the Norwegian concrete company probably made my neighbours concerned.
That bottle opening sequence was amazingly chaotic
Yuke.
This video is again a great example of Ashen’s fantastic talent. For those who don’t know who Ashen is, allow me to explain. He is a man who risks his health for our entertainment.
This comment was left to help him with the algorithm.
I have been watching your videos and I love all of them. You make me laugh, I think your the best channel yet!
LOL @ that gulp at 4:29. Like a confirmation that the madman actually eats and drinks all this stuff for real.
Shucks, I was hoping maybe the alcohol and tight cap had preserved it. Not so, I guess. Thanks for taking another one for the team, Stuart… All the best in the new year…
At a recent auction this fetched £43 per bottle.
I think we all know who bought it 😂
That the Christies lot from 2014? Or do you have Worthpoint or something? Last sale I see is £10 for 2 in 2016.
Edit* Just found one that went for £22 in November.
Good to know that monetization fortune he's been sitting on is being put to use. 😉🙃
these videos are weirdly calming. so much so that I use them to help me fall asleep. keep em coming lmao
This is the most chaotic bottle opening I’ve ever seen.
as they said when this beer was made "God Save the King".
as we say today "God Save Ashens ... from alcohol poisoning".
Description from a recent Christies auction... "Brewed in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee on His Majesty George V by Ind Coope and Allsop. This powerful dark ale is still alive displaying an oily fruit character and with a colour as black as the hobs of Hell. Stylistically comparable to Ind Coope's legendary 1875 Arctic Ale - the beer of choice of 19th century Polar explorers"
“Theres all crusty stuff around the rim”
Classic ashens
When I invent a time machine I'm going back to 1935 to try and explain to the brewery staff, using words, what their product was eventually used for
Some fortified wines can last that long if properly stored. Maybe a really strong ale that’s about as strong as wine. Not most ales. I respect Stuart for giving this one a try.
I would say 8 percent or more, and stored like wine at the same temperature. You need it to have a cork and not cap. Like the original Carlsberg brewery, had a storage cellar, and they had easter brew from 1965 that were drinkable. The one tasted it, said it was like port wine. And it was the last of two bottles in the world.
@@brostenen yes, needs to be corked and stored properly.
Greene King had a Coronation Ale brewed for Edwards coronation, but he abdicated and it was never released. All the bottles at some point ended up being bricked in the cellar, only to be discovered about 15 years ago.
I tried it at the beer shop I used to work at, and due to it being somewhere around 8% it tasted alright! Lots of oxidation, but that gave it raisin, marzipan, fruit cake notes.
@@OlliePooleCowley Exactly. In the city of Aalborg in Jutland, the local brewery did start making vault's around 1900 or something, but the same time they were finished, the owner of the brewery died. They were never used for storage. But they were used briefly for a jazz nightclub untill the firedepartment shut it down. That was around 1921 or something. Today it is closed off, because it is home to bats, that hipernate through winther.
Idk why, but I really like these old food videos. They're weirdly comforting to me for some reason.
whats funny is betty was quite a popular figure in the 30s, especially WW2, Meaning she matches the bottle well.
Missed this format. Very much welcome to see this in my subs box. Quality start to 2022. :)
I have the exact same glass in a slightly smaller size. They were given out for free a couple years back when you bought 6-packs of guiness
You can also nick them from pubs
I love ale but I feel like drinking just a sip of this would permanently ruin ale for me. It's like those drinks you have before becoming ill or hungover and you can never drink them again without feeling sick
I feel like just a sip of of this ale would ruin me.
Ashens, the first RUclips channel I ever subscribed to-you inspired me to smoke a 77 year old cigarette yesterday, and let me tell you this: it was a great experience. Happy new year, oh mighty master of RUclips.
Hate to break it to you, Stu, but according to (everyone's favourite reliable source of information) Wikipedia, HeidelbergCement is German, not Norwegian. And yes, I deliberately omitted the space, because that's how they format it.
id love you to do a bacterial analysis on these old food items
I imagine lots of horrific, gibbering things with mad eyes and tongues everywhere under the gaze of the microscope
That Ashens is somehow still alive, and tasting crazy food and drink is the best news I’ve had so far in 2022
Haven't checked out your channel for quite a while but I'm glad to see you're still into drinking/eating weird old stuff...that is as long as you're not taking too big health risks.
I also like vintage ales though we don't get access to that many of them here in Sweden and they're mostly from the present year expecting people to personally do the storing and waiting required to make them old. That said I recently drank a Fuller's 2016 Vintage ale (bought in 2016) and it was sublime...too bad I can't get any more of those.
That bottle is older than my grandparents 💀
First thought when this video popped up: Oh God what Museum is currently looking for Ashens now.
I'm kind of impressed how nice the label is after all that time.
How come the label was in such staggeringly good condition? No yellowing or wear or anything. Without the look under the cap I'd have thought it was brand new.
Kept in a dark cellar maybe? I think yellowing of paper comes from being left in direct sunlight
@@MrAltheArtist it's mostly moisture. The yellowing (and also weakness) comes from the wood fibres breaking down over time and releasing acids that discolour the paper. This process is accelerated by the presence of water, although the acids produced by the breakdown also speed up further breakdown, as will the acids present on skin, and acids formed by the breakdown of oils deposited on the paper by skin. This is why many ancient books are handled with gloves and kept humidity and temperature-controlled environments. If you have a favourite book, look at the pages. They will be slightly yellower along the edges, where you touch paper to turn the page, compared to the rest of it.
Sunlight will degrade the dyes used in the ink, something that's a huge problem for historical artworks, and unfortunately, a beloved photograph of a young me with my late grandfather.
@@RaunienTheFirst Oh interesting. I thought sunlight as that's what has happened to my books which were kept near a window. Then I suppose this beer bottle was kept in pretty good condition, I'd be interested as to where Ashens got it from.
1935 paper was mostly bleach and acid free. Often rag instead of wood too. There are some great examples in the museum at Wookey Hole paper mill. Pages in books hundreds of years old can look pretty new. I've got one from 1892 which I bought 40 years ago that's not yellowed at all, and some paperbacks from the early 30s that are similar.
Your videos aren’t particularly exciting or different, however your sense of humour and quick wit make them, Keep it up mate you always make me laugh pr if not smile.
"I don't know, I've got about as much interest in our Royal Family as I do in the Norwegian concrete industry"
Priceless Ashens
Great video! A real blast from the past in more ways than one 👍👌
Played a game called 'The Procession to Calvary' today. Was not expecting your mug to turn up but i'm glad you backed it! I bloody loved it!
"It looks like some coka cola thats been dredged up from the bottom of the ocean"
Normaly id say thats a bit of a hyperbol but im pretty sure you've drank that before on camera
He did drink a can of Cola that was just literally found lying on a beach.
(The video is titled "20+ Year Old Pepsi, Lucozade and Beach Coke Zero").
My dad was a plumber in the eighties in ind coopes brewery in Burton on Trent. Their overalls had ICBB (ind coopes burton brewery) embriodered on. They said it was for "i can't be bothered". The more you know. My whole family has worked burton breweries at some time or another.
Holy shit man, i used to binge your videos during olevels and now i'm done with uni and working. Good to see you're still eating gone off food for us HAHAHAHAHA
It's Ind Coope, pronounced eyen coope, my neighbour worked for them, it was here in Burton on Trent but it's now a housing estate.
I'm from Burton too. Was about to comment about Ind Coope too, you beat me to it :)
For your information, there is actually quite a bit of interesting stuff going on at the moment with swedish cement factory Cementa.
You could have waited another 13 years and it would have been an amazing 100 year old
Ashen’s immune system has to be the strongest in the system
Him and Steve1989MRE.
I hear bacteria and viruses are terrified of ever having to go up against their immune systems!
A infamous old brit appears again to save the day of the eternal question *have I lived my life truly without totally expired foods for the internet?*
I still have a beer from my first batch of brew I made in 1994 but that one predates it by miles!
I’m so sorry Ashens I’ve been so busy I neglected your channel for like a year and now I gotta binge everything 😭😭😭🙄
You've got some concrete information on the European cement industry.
Norwegian concrete is solid
Thank you for your service.
Nearly ten years later and you’re still eating century old food.
Part of the reason we come here!
Well, an extra 10 years means there's more time for things to get that old
They say if you watch Ashens on a daily basis it keeps the depression away❤
Queen Victoria was George V grandmother. Her son/his father Albert Edward, Prince of Wales became King Edward VII after the death of Victoria in 1901. George was third in the line of succession to the throne until his elder brother Prince Albert Victor died putting George directly in line for the crown. Edward VII died in 1910 and George V reigned until his death in 1936. George V was succeeded by his first son who was crowned King Edward VIII until his abdication of the throne with Wallace Simpson that same year. His brother become George VII who was succeeded by his daughter who became our current Queen Elizabeth II.
I always know the video has taken a turn for the best when Ashens says “Oh dear…”
"It looks like some sort of coke-cola that's been dredged up from the bottom of the ocean."
Well you'd know.
I've a bottle of Newcastle Brown from 2005. I've still got until 2092 before I can open it. But seeing as I'd have to live until I was well over 120 years old, I don't think I need to worry too much about it.
"it looks like coca cola that's been dredged up from the bottom of the ocean" well if anyone would know. Oh wait that was Pepsi, never mind.
Actually, you were right the first time. It was a can of the original formulation of Coke Zero, found on a beach after who knows how long. The Pepsi was from the same episode and was a 20 year-old Star Wars tie in promotion.
@@Squonk06 that's right, I think the Pepsi was on the video thumbnail so that probably biased my memory.
This is classic Ashens
You love the Boopster Bottle Opener, hence it still has it's batteries in!
This content is why I'll always be subbed
Oh christ this can only go well...
Ashens vomiting will always be my favorite intro cause you know you're in for a treat.
Well, not the edible kind.
The Betty boop on the bottle opener is contemporaneous with the beer, so that at least is satisfying
It's pronounced eye nd coop and was probably brewed in Burton on Trent near where I live 😊 Beer definitely doesn't keep as well as spirit does.
What's funny somebody is alive who probably remembers seeing dad drinking it on the day
Burton is Burton-Upon-Trent where Ind Coope breweries were located, along with many others!
On the positive side, it still sounds right when poured.
ind coope is or was part of bass (charington). based in burton on trent. the water was marston, and weirdly the yeast once used is passed to marmite, just over the road, to make..... i know this due to living in a village nearby where a lot of people worked in these places.
why and why I like so much to see this british man try ancient food from his couch?
Burton on Trent is the location of the Allsopp and sons Brewery. Ind Coope was a Romford brewery that set up production in Burton on Trent because of the quality of the water. The breweries merged in 1934 becoming Ind Coope and Allsopp LTD. The Alsopp name was dropped in 1959 and in 1970 Ind Coope became part of Allied Breweries.
Probably the most well known Ind Coope beer was Double Diamond made from 1876 to 1996.
The Allsopp brewery was re-established in 2021 by Jamie Allsopp as an independent brewery.
Wonder if Ashens is on a first name basis with the medical staff at his local emergency room yet. "Morning, Stuart!" *blergh* "Ate something horrible again?" *blergh!* "Room 8b. The nurse will see you in."
"A real undercurrent of something nasty". Word of the day, thank you very much!
Ind Coope is now owned by Carlsberg Group, and most of its original breweries have since closed. Jamie Allsopp, great-great-great-great- great-grandson of Samuel, found the only remaining ledger containing the original Allsopp recipes and resurrected the Allsopp brand last year. A fitting punishment?
This week on 'No Stuart Don't!!.."
I found some bottles of commemorative ale for Charles and Diana 1981 in a charity shop on Guernsey and bought them to see what a 30 year old ale tasted like. One of the bottles survived without oxidising and tasted like fine tawny port!
Intro, voice, brown couch...I feel safe.