Has anyone ever gotten/used a culture of that ancient yeast (cano)

[sput]

Title says it all, I'm curious if there's ever been a home brewer to either isolate the yeast from finished beer or receive a culture and use it? I would like to get my hands on some and see how it acts.

I tried searching all over and have come up with little to nothing.

 

[porcupine73]

Hm that is an interesting question, I'm interested in knowing the answer too. Sandor Katz talks about this concept in his fermentation books, but doesn't really talk about how one would acquire such a yeast stick ... perhaps from the Amish or other traditional society?

 

[sput]

From what I undertand, Cano patented (or at least tried to) the yeast he extracted so I'm not likely to get a sample mailed to me by way of kind request.

http://www.google.com/patents/US20110293778

 

[sput]

Hate double posting like this, but apparently you can request progeny of patented strains from the ARS if you do it in writing and have the sample sent to a lab or research facility. So I'm going to do exactly that. Not bad for $20.