Now that's vintage! Brewers make beer from yeast extracted from a 35 million-year-old whale FOSSIL

• The brew is called Bone Dusters Paleo Ale and it is said to taste sweet 
  and 'very Belgianesque' and will be served in selected bars in Virginia
• Two scientists swabbed an ancient whale fossil at the Calvert Marine Museum in Maryland to collect the culture
• They had hoped to find a new species of yeast, but instead found a subspecies of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is used by breweries

By SARAH GRIFFITHS

PUBLISHED: 09:08 GMT, 3 April 2014 | UPDATED: 11:09 GMT, 3 April 2014

These days the perfect pint comes in many forms - beers are flavoured with citrus fruits, jalapeno and even bacon.

But now there is a brew made from fossils and it is said to taste 'sweet and untamed'.

The founder of a palaeontology and geology organisation set out to find an untapped strain of yeast to make his strange brew in a bid to sneak science into drinks.

The creation is called Bone Dusters Paleo Ale and it is said to taste sweet and fairly much like Belgium beer.

Jason Osborne, of Paleo Quest, worked with a brewing scientist called Jason Akerboom from the Lost Rhino Brewing Company to create his unusual tipple, which includes yeast found on a 35-million-year-old whale fossil.

The pair had worked before at a biomedical research centre in Ashburn, Virginia.

Yeast, which is responsible for converting sugar to alcohol, is found in many places and using swabs and petri dishes, the duo discovered that it is found on the surface of fossils, Scientific American reported.

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