a wordBrett
also: Brettanomyces
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.
Root. Latinised Greek: Brettano- (British) + -myces (fungus) — named in a Carlsberg lab from British beer Cited · wp-brettanomyces
Facts
| kind | cellar |
|---|---|
| region | The world |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Its kin
practiceNative yeastWhose risk this is.and of this page it says: The organism that gets blamed when this goes wrong.practiceNeutral oakWhere it lives, if it lives anywhere.
Sources
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.