This Company Rescued Some Extinct Rye from a Shipwreck to Make Whiskey. What Have You Done Today.

Back in 1878, 37,000 bushels of rye sunk to the bottom of Lake Huron. That specific variety of rye doesn’t exist anymore, so a ragtag team of scientists, historians, and whiskey distillers banded together to go retrieve it. The schooner that was lost at sea, named the James R. Bentley, ran into a storm in […] The post This Company Rescued Some Extinct Rye from a Shipwreck to Make Whiskey. What Have You Done Today. appeared first on VICE.

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