Can White Labs brett c ferment lactose?

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Failing_Ales

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Does anyone have experience with WLP brett c in a beer with lactose? According to some papers published in the 80s and 90s, brett c is supposedly incapable of lactose fermentation, but some anecdotes about the white labs variant would be reassuring.

Edit: more reading made it less clear - publications with varying aims (mostly brewing science or biomass stuff) from the 1940s to 2004 make opposite claims (Brett c ferments lactose while Brux does not or vice-versa)
 
My gut instinct is to say yes, but it'd be a pretty easy experiment to confirm. Just mix up a solution of water and lactose, pitch some brett c and see what happens.
 
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