Beer from Victorian Arctic expedition to be opened
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620v1xgz10o
"A brewer plans to open up a 150-year-old bottle of beer, made for an Arctic expedition, so a modern version can be created.
The original Allsopp's Arctic Ale was bottled in Burton-upon-Trent for Sir George Nares, when he set out to reach the North Pole in 1875. ... .. designed the beer for sailors enduring temperatures as low as -40C and it had an alcohol strength of about 9%.
The beer was said to resist freezing because of its unfermentable sugars and it had six times the calorie content of conventional beer. .. He said: "Some people might think it's madness to open it, but I think the real madness would be to leave it sitting on a shelf.
"Beer is meant to be shared, particularly on this, its 150th anniversary."