date:May 23, 2012
esses and may have preserved the beer.
Dead yeast cells in the beer appeared to be Saccharomyces cerevisiae or brewers yeast, while others resembled the Dekkera yeast characteristic of lambic (Belgian style) beer. No living yeast cells were found, but trace amount of yeast DNA could be detected from one of the bottles.
Annika Wilhelmson, VTT key account manager, said that the isolated bacteria provided interesting model organisms to understand and improve long-term survival of non-spore-form