Shipwrecked bottle of stout returns to Glasgow after 150 years | Coastal Restoration | Scoop.it
A 150-year-old bottle of beer discovered near a shipwreck off the coast of Australia has been returned to its brewery in Glasgow.The bottle of stout was discovered by diver Jim Anderson close to where the ill-fated clipper The Light of The Age foundered near Melbourne in January 1868 on a voyage from Liverpool.Mr Anderson made the discovery in the 1970s and noticed a Wellpark Brewery stamp.He eventually contacted the brewery and has now brought the bottle back to Glasgow, where it will feature in a new £1 million visitor centre built to tell the story of Tennent’s Lager.