# SDMB Brewers: name that contaminant!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-brewers-name-that-contaminant/400377>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 16, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-brewers-name-that-contaminant/400377 "2007-04-16T19:52:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-brewers-name-that-contaminant/400377/21 "2007-04-18T14:41:52Z")

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_Brett. lambicus_ doesn’t hurt either! With a _soupçon_ of _Acetobacter_ and a pinch of Belgian attic dust

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-brewers-name-that-contaminant/400377/22 "2007-04-18T15:18:21Z")

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And the finger bone of a Belgian abbott to stir it with!

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**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-brewers-name-that-contaminant/400377/23 "2007-04-18T15:45:43Z")

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> Christopher, I wouldn’t be so sure that the spoilage organism in capybara’s beer is going to make a nice tart gueze. It could just as easily turn into big ropy strands of slime.

But you can’t know until you try.😉

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-brewers-name-that-contaminant/400377/24 "2007-04-18T16:32:48Z")

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Trust me…slime mold is an ugly, ugly thing. You really don’t want that stuff anywhere within 500 miles of your equipment.

\<shudder\>

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**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-brewers-name-that-contaminant/400377/25 "2007-04-18T17:21:30Z")

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Oh, I know Silenus. I have been lucky and never gotten contamination except the odd bottle. Considering the conditions I do my brewing in that record is phenominal. That said, I will try anything and I have every intention of trying to do a genuinely wild brew when I get more settled. I’m gonna need some microbiology lessons I think.

I did recently try to resurect some old yeast. This didn’t work, but something looked like it might have been growing very slowly in it. Nevertheless I did not waste this wort, and used it to pitch some yeast. That brew took off like a rocket. Who knows if the end result will be good or bad, I made a number of mistakes with this one, so I have some serious manipulation left to do.

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