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===Safety===
An often asked question when it comes to tasting beer fermented from a wild culture (that wasn't plated and isolated) is, "When is it safe to drink?" To our knowledge, no studies have shown when a wild caught beer is scientifically 100% safe to drink. However, several studies can give us some guidance on this.
* The addition of hops in the starter wort will kill gram positive bacteria pathogens (''L. monocytogenes'' and ''S. aureus'') <ref name="Menz1">[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22004814 Growth and survival of foodborne pathogens in beer. Menz G., Aldred P, Vriesekoop F . Oct 2011.]</ref>.