Oops: Alexander Keith’s ad touts 192-year history with recipe showing hop developed only 20 years ago

A recent television commercial for the golden suds shows an antique hand-scrawled recipe as the phrase “it began as one man’s personal recipe” flashes across the screen. Yet after some sleuthing, including scrutinizing high-resolution screen shots of the advertisement, a group of beer aficionados and homebrewers in Halifax say the recipe is a fake.

via Chronicle Herald.

 

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