With up to16 species found, it is remarkable the prevalence of LAB in both patios: ca. 92% and 97% of the isolates in patio #1 and #2, respectively, and 72% and 93%, respectively, when removing the L. pentosus isolates. The maximum number of distinct species was found at the initial stage of fermentation, so that 22 out of the 37 bacterial species found were isolated only at this occasion, 13 of them from patio #1 and 8 of them from patio #2, being L. pentosus the only common species
at this stage.