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I know some people believe the fungus growing in the barrels lends some flavor to the whiskey and therefore killing it would have a potentially negative effect

• ceejayoz 4y ago
  No one's asking them to eradicate the fungus. They're being asked to filter the outgoing air ventilation on the barrelhouses so it doesn't spray fungus (and fungus food, in the form of ethanol fumes) over the nearby community.
• ipaddr 4y ago
  Done at a small scale nature can handle some excess fungus overgrowth. Done at a large scale and it becomes too toxic and destroys life. It reminds me of the fisheries. Catch too many and the fish never return