Rebrewing the first quality beer using Carlsberg's original purified yeast

The unique history behind 1883

Imagine if you could taste the world's first quality beer with the original ingredients, exactly as it was brewed in the late 18th hundreds. Now, a group of scientists from Carlsberg Laboratory in Copenhagen has made that possible.

Employees at Carlsberg made a remarkable discovery in the old cellars under the brewery when they found an intact bottle that turned out to be one of the first Carlsberg beers brewed with the original pure yeast from 1883.

The scientists have miraculously been able to extract living yeasts cells from the 133-year-old bottle and took it upon themselves to recreate the original Carlsberg lager from 1883, using the original pure yeast.