Least favorite yeast

For my answer - drink any Hefeweizen. That banana type flavor comes from the yeast.

Most Belgian style beers have the yeast contributing some herbal flavors. Some English style beers have some mild fruity flavor coming from the yeast. Most American style beers use a yeast that is neutral and doesn't contribute to taste. But the yeast strain will still affect the beer, as to whether it is high or low attenuation. So it affects the FG of the beer, and whether the beer tastes sweet or dry.

Some good reading here about various yeast strains: https://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain.cfm

 

While amusing, that's kind of true.

 

My post was just a lame attempt at a tasteless joke. But it's good to see that on Beer Advocate, people are able to maintain their tunnel vision fixed on the one thing that truly matters.

 

Yup, totally missed the yeast infection joke, although fairly apparent in hindsight.

 

To be fair, I use that yeast almost half the time in my homebrews as it's incredibly forgiving and very cheap and I enjoy making hop forward beers at home.

But it is somewhat amusing where quality beers are wanted, that that yeast - which is one of the most important ingredients in beer - is as close to flavourless as possible, is one of the most used and revered. All it suggests to me is that some massive opportunities are being missed, in terms of flavour complexity for beer lovers


I also think that the ringwood yeast is being abused or the breweries using it aren't using the dual strain yeast, instead just using one strain of it supplied to them by some company. Or perhaps that while those yeast strains are well suited to british climates, they suffer when being used in the US which has a massively different climate by and large

 

The yeast that gives you the shits.