HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (MyFoxBoston.com) – A century-old bottle of beer was pulled out from the ocean floor in Nova Scotia and it could be nearly as old as Canada itself.
A scuba diver found the bottle buried in the sea floor.
The bottle has markings of Alexander Keith's, a brewer still in service in Nova Scotia.
When he dug it up he found there was still beer inside it, but it may not be worth drinking.
"I don't think I'd be drinking it. I think that one I'd just put on the shelf and admire it from afar,” Steve Durand, a brewer from Alexander Keith’s, said.
“This thing managed to not strike a rock while underneath the water and smash. So that alone, it's been around for years and it's still fully intact with not even a chip taken out of it,” Jon Crouse, the diver who found it, said.
Crouse said the bottle is most likely from the late 19th century; Canada became a country in 1867.
A local craft beer retailer has offered to do a free analysis of the beer to determine what ingredients were used more than a century ago.