On Jun 7, 12:01*pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:21:28 -0700 (PDT), Bryan wrote:
> > The risk is small if the farmer is really diligent, but you have a
> > chance of getting pretty sick. *Raw milk does taste awfully good. *The
> > happy medium is "minimally pasteurized," which is pricey, safe, tastes
> > almost as good as raw, and is legal to sell everywhere.
>
> Minimally pasteurized? *Is that like "almost pregnant"?
>

This sounds to me like "flash pasteurization" of beer:

When I first took the Anchor Steam tour, almost 30 years ago, they
made a point of pasteurizing all their beer, even the beer going in
kegs. But while industrial breweries set their bottles and cans on a
belt going through a furnace, Anchor "flash pasteurized" their beer in
a heat-jacketed tube on the way to the filler. The beer bottles were
all new and sterile.

Anchor's argument was that flash pasteurization was effective (killed
any microbes) while having minimal effect on the beer (Not much heat
is required to bring the small cross-section of the flow high enough,
long enough to pasteurize.)