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A Beer Keg Lost in an Alpine Glacier for Nearly 50 Years Has Resurfaced. It Was Still Delicious

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The beer survived almost half a century under the ice.

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A beer barrel, which fell into a crevasse in the seventies, reappears almost 50 years later. Now it has been tapped – the brew is actually still edible.

·Berlin, Germany
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A local resident of Daniel Oberlehner found a 40-kilogram beer lost in the ice in the Italian province of Trentino Alto Adija in the late 1970s. The find was in the ice of the local valley for about 50 years. It was discovered that the barrel had been lost during transportation in the late 1970s, and that it was transferred to TASS with reference to Alto Adige. Following the discovery of the cargo, local residents decided to cut off the barrel a…

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The 40-pound shaft had fallen from the net of a helicopter during a delivery to the Rifugio Sasso Nero, in Valle Aurina, between the end of the seventies and the beginning of the eighties. Stayed trapped in a crevasse at about 3,000 meters, it resurfaced after a violent storm and was recovered by Daniel Oberlechner, 42-year-old mountain driver and runner, who carried it downstream with a cart nearly 2,000 meters of altitude, crossing ice and sto…

·Turin, Italy
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Taken downstream by the Oberlechner runner, drink promoted by the master brewer (ANSA)

·Rome, Italy
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ANSA broke the news in Rome, Italy on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
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