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===Source of Microbes===
The sources of microbes that influence spontaneous fermentation are somewhat debatable, especially when referencing [[Lambic]] producers in Belgium. Although the coolship step is regarded by lambic brewers as the main contributor to the microbial inoculation for spontaneous beers, it has been demonstrated that ''Brettanomyces'' and other microbes living in the barrels is are at least partially responsible for the secondary fermentation of spontaneous beers. Some yeast species that have been found in limited capacity in lambic such as ''Wickerhamomyces anomalus'' and ''Debaryomyces hansenii'' have been isolated from the air of coolship rooms, but they have also been isolated from the air of cellar rooms, indicating that they could have been introduced to the wort/beer in the cellar as well. Additionally, yeast and bacteria species that are the most abundant during lambic fermentation (''Saccharomyces'', ''Brettanomyces'', ''Pediococcus'', and acetic acid bacteria) have not been isolated from the air of coolship rooms <ref name="Bongaerts_2021" />.
De Roos et al. (2018) used amplicon sequencing technology (which is better at detected so-called "[[Quality_Assurance#Viable_But_Nonculturable|viable but not culturable]]" cells) to samples of the interior of barrels and foeders used in one lambic brewery that uses high-pressurized hot water and sulfur dioxide to clean them, and found surviving colonies of ''Brettanomyces anomalus'', ''B. bruxellensis'', ''B. custersianus'', ''Pediococcus'', and to a lesser extent ''Acetobacter'' and ''Lactobacillus''. The ''Acetobacter'' might be linked to older barrels that are more porous. ''Pichia'', ''Debaryomyces hansenii'' and ''Candida'' were also found in abundance in some barrels, but not others. They also found high levels of ''Cellulosimicrobium'' and ''Acinetobacter'', which have not been found to be important for lambic fermentation; the authors suspected that these were living in the wood rather than in the beer since they can metabolize cellulose. Although they are probably also not important to the fermentation of lambic, molds were found in the more porous barrels before cleaning, including ''Aspergillus'' and ''Penicillium''. No molds survived the sulfuring process and the diversity of microbes was far higher in barrels than it was for foeders, perhaps because of the higher level of oxygen exposure in barrels compared to foeders, although foeders had a much higher than expected amount of surviving ''Saccharomyces'' and ''Pichia'' <ref>[https://aem.asm.org/content/early/2018/10/15/AEM.02226-18 The interior surfaces of wooden barrels are an additional microbial inoculation source for lambic beer production. J. De Roos, D. Van der Veken, L. De Vuyst. 2018. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02226-18.]</ref>.