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Long before bourbon dominated the liquor market, rye whiskey reigned supreme.

Now, a Midwestern distiller is teaming up with scientists to bring back a long-gone type of grain and turn it into spicy, bold whiskey.

The source is a wooden schooner named the James R. Bentley that's been sitting in Lake Huron for nearly 150 years. The ship sank in Nov. 1878 after striking a shoal.

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Remarkably, all the crew members on the ship were rescued – and even more remarkably, the ship still contains the remnants of the rye it was shipping.

Chad Munger, founder and CEO of Mammoth Distilling, talked to Fox News Digital about his efforts to revive the grain, which h

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