Danes find secret beer trove

They raised a set of floorboards to find seven 113-year-old bottles from the Odin Brewery, carefully stowed away in a wooden box, where they survived two world wars, the DR public broadcaster reports.

The builders called in Viborg Museum's Dan Ersted Møller, who was delighted with the discovery. "This really is a unique find. The corks and labels are all in place. It looks like an entire selection of beers from back then," he told DR.

Sadly, two of the corks had dried out and the beer evaporated, but the remaining five bottles are intact, according to DR's Nyheder news programme.

Among the bottles are examples of the most popular Odin offerings of the day - Prinsens Bryg, Odin Pilsner and Viborg Pilsner.

Empty Odin bottles from that time are not unknown, but beer experts told Mr Møller that examples of the actual Odin product from 1906 are "very rare".