LI brewery makes beer from 133-year-old yeast

Jamie Adams, co-owner of Saint James Brewery New York, fills a glass with his new beer, Deep Ascent, at the brewery in Holbrook on Wednesday. Deep Ascent was brewed with yeast salvaged from bottles of English ale that had been on the SS Oregon, which sank off Fire Island in 1886.

Jamie Adams, co-owner of Saint James Brewery New York, puts Deep Ascent into kegs at  the brewery in Holbrook on Wednesday.

Adams shows the Deep Ascent logo next to bottles from the SS Oregon shipwreck in 1886.

Adams works on a keg on Wednesday.

Adams raises a glass of Deep Ascent.

Drawings of the SS Oregon, which sank off Fire Island in 1886.

Painting of the passenger liner SS Oregon, which sailed between New York and Liverpool, England in the 1880s.