My Country - The Shipwrecked Brewer's Yeast Poem by Paul Warren

ADELAIDE scientists have extracted unique strains of yeast from a 220-year-old bottle of shipwrecked beer — and craft brewers are scrambling to get on board.
The bottle was found on the Sydney Cove, wrecked in 1797 on Preservation Island off Tasmania on her way from Calcutta to Port Jackson.
Australian Wine Research Institute principal research scientist Dr Anthony Borneman said that until now, no one knew yeast could survive that long.
"When we started we thought we'd be doing post-mortems on dead yeast, " he said. But two samples, from the same bottle, yielded viable brewer's yeast Saccharomcyes cerevisiae and another type, Brettanomyces, found in traditional Lambic ales from Belgium.
The scientists purified both yeasts and brewed some tasty beer.
"Honestly, the results were very impressive, " Dr Borneman said.