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 "schema": 1,
 "id": "wine-fault-brett",
 "type": "term",
 "names": {
  "name": "Brett",
  "aliases": [
   "Brettanomyces"
  ]
 },
 "etymology": {
  "root": "Latinised Greek: Brettano- (British) + -myces (fungus) — named in a Carlsberg lab from British beer",
  "tier": "cited",
  "source": "s:wp-brettanomyces"
 },
 "region": [
  "world"
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 "facets": {
  "letter": "B",
  "kind": "cellar"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Brettanomyces, a yeast that lives in old barrels and makes phenols people describe as barnyard, plaster or clove. Some drinkers read a little of it as complexity, laboratories read it as spoilage, and pinot noir shows it early because there is so little else in the way."
 },
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  {
   "to": "native-yeast",
   "as": "Whose risk this is.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "neutral-oak",
   "as": "Where it lives, if it lives anywhere.",
   "rel": "kin"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-brettanomyces",
  "s:wp-wine-fault"
 ],
 "provenance": {
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   "tier": "cited"
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "Brettanomyces, a yeast that lives in old barrels and makes phenols people describe as barnyard, plaster or clove.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "world",
   "name": "The world",
   "country": null,
   "note": "use when a node belongs everywhere pinot noir is grown"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "native-yeast",
   "type": "practice",
   "name": "Native yeast",
   "as": "Whose risk this is.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "to": "neutral-oak",
   "type": "practice",
   "name": "Neutral oak",
   "as": "Where it lives, if it lives anywhere.",
   "rel": "kin"
  }
 ],
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   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Brettanomyces",
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   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=1044750",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330177882",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-wine-fault",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
   "title": "Wine fault",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=3031996",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366999655",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited"
  },
  "etymology": {
   "tier": "cited"
  }
 },
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 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "native-yeast",
   "type": "practice",
   "name": "Native yeast",
   "as": "The organism that gets blamed when this goes wrong.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  }
 ]
}