Brettanomyces and Guinness

snipped-for-privacy@see.headers (Joel) wrote in news:dvn3ie$gnj$1 @badger.ncsa.uiuc.edu:

Were this assertion true, breweries and wineries from California to eastern Europe would be burned down on a daily basis. Cantillon, Boone, Hanssens...all gain more horseblanket over time? I wish that it were so because I love horse/mouse/goat.

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Your experience is what? Homebrew? Hanssens? Oud Beersel used to pasteurize it's 'beeks?

I have both purchased beers with Brett and used pure Brett cultures (several strains). Your assertion that Brett "continue[s] to work" is bunk. It ejects when it can no longer find anything to digest (paraphrase: "Brett can eat anything" is further bunk). Nothing can eat everything. We'd have low-grade vodka if this were true.

Did you? Did the horseblanket knock you down?

Scott Kaczorowski Long Beach, CA