Scientists at three Israeli universities (HUJ, TAU and Bar-Ilan) have brewed a beer using yeast found in the nano-pores of 5000-year-old beer jugs. Microbiologists sequenced the genome which a local brewer then used to make beer – the first time that alcohol has been made from ancient yeast.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/israeli-brewery-recreated-2000-year-old-beer-180958883/