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Interesting article on yeast 11 years 7 months ago #7

oblivious Offline Posts: 5156	yep iits was carlsberg, that had quite the research lab and where a world leaders. But I think all of that is gone

Interesting article on yeast 11 years 7 months ago #8

irish_goat Offline Posts: 1553	&quot;TheBeerNut&quot;:24vrmul3 wrote: &quot;irish_goat&quot;:24vrmul3 wrote: Er..?[/quote:24vrmul3]I'm wondering if it's a garbled reference to Brettanomyces. It was the Carlsberg lab that discovered it in English porter, and gave it its name. But that wasn't recently.[/quote:24vrmul3] I thought they might have swallowed the Diageo marketing spiel about the unique GUINNESS® YEAST.

Interesting article on yeast 11 years 7 months ago #9

tube Offline Posts: 3438	Guinness labs (or rather one particular chemist) isolated two sacchromyces strains in the 1960s. Iirc one is called "1611" and the other is called 17something. Anything Guinness brewed since then has one if these, regardless of where it's brewed.

Interesting article on yeast 11 years 7 months ago #10

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&quot;Tube&quot;:gga0za1e wrote: Guinness labs (or rather one particular chemist) isolated two sacchromyces strains in the 1960s. Iirc one is called "1611" and the other is called 17something. Anything Guinness brewed since then has one if these, regardless of where it's brewed.[/quote:gga0za1e]

They are very likely to come from a Burton strain, but would have mutated over the last couple of centuries

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