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Pictured is yeast culture from beer bottles recovered from a luxury liner that sank off Fire Island in 1886. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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The most distinguishing feature of Jamie Adams’ new ale isn’t its hoppy bite but its compelling backstory — brewed from yeast in bottles of beer that went down on a doomed steamship and languished on the ocean floor for 131 years.

By MARY ESCH, Associated Press March 16, 2019