Genomics for Better Booze

I was out and about on NCBI this morning and noticed a few ongoing genome sequencing projects that seemed to have their priorities straight:

Organism	Group	Status	Consortium
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Kyokai no. 7	Fungi	In Progress	National Research Institute of Brewing
Saccharomyces pastorianus Weihenstephan 34/70	Fungi	Assembly	SUNTORY LIMITED (Japan)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Lalvin QA23	Fungi	Assembly	The Australian Wine Research Institute
Saccharomyces cerevisiae VL3	Fungi	Assembly	The Australian Wine Research Institute
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Vin13	Fungi	Assembly	The Australian Wine Research Institute
Saccharomyces cerevisiae FostersB	Fungi	Assembly	The Australian Wine Research Institute
Saccharomyces cerevisiae FostersO	Fungi	Assembly	The Australian Wine Research Institute
Saccharomyces cerevisiae AWRI1631	Fungi	Assembly	The Australian Wine Research Institute
Saccharomyces cerevisiae AWRI796	Fungi	Assembly	The Australian Wine Research Institute

Saccharomyces is of course yeast, and the apparently at least some in the liquor industry want to know very well what they're brewing and distilling. From a couple of quick google searches, it seems that most of the strains here are for wine making, although it would seem reasonable that the FostersB/O strains from an Australian institute might be those used for the beer. Of course, these are only the projects that are willing to make their data public (through NCBI), so perhaps the beer brewers are just keeping all their secret genome sequencing projects in the basements of their breweries.