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HALIFAX — An amateur scuba diver has recovered a bottle from the bottom of Halifax harbour that could contain beer that is more than a century old.

And there’s a possibility, though slim, the ancient brew could be drinkable.

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After Jon Crouse pulled the green glass bottle from the billowing silt beneath three metres of 10 C water, he discovered its cork was intact and it was half full of a cloudy, sudsy liquid.

The bottle also has a thick lip at the top of its neck.

“I knew that was the hallmark of an old bottle,” Crouse said in an interview while taking a break from his job at a Halifax-area warehouse.

Crouse later spotted a logo on the side of the cork, which can be seen through the side of the bottle’s neck. It says, “A. Keith & Son Brewery,” the previous name of the now famous Halifax-based Alexander Keith’s brewing company, which opened in the early 1820s.

As well, markings on the bottom of the well-preserved bottle indicate it was made in England in the late 1800s by Nutall & Co., which routinely exported this type of bottle for use in Canada until 1890, Crouse says.