Yeasty Taste

[mh75]

Why do all my brews have that yeasty taste?

Is it that all kits taste like this way? I only ask this because while watching the Neil Morrissey prog I noticed that nearly all the public liked there brew apart from one guy who said it tasted like home brew because of the yeasty taste!

All my brews seem to taste the same.
The standard procedure I use is, ferment until FG has reached its target (or got stuck!) which is usually 10-14 days, transfer to bottles with a little sugar and leave in the warm for approx 2 weeks, then move to cold for approx 4-6 weeks.

The brews I have tried are, BOTW London bitter, BOTW Christmas ale, Sheerwoods Woodland ale and now my BOTW london Porter and Almundbury Old have gone the same way!!

Help!!

[MightyMouth]

it probably is not yeast you are tasting, it's probably what is refered to as HBT (Home Brew Taste). I found this with all the kits I brewed. I think the guy on the Morrissey thing didn't know what he was tasting. My AG brews have none of that taste.

[p2ll]

I'm surprised you're tasting much yeast with a porter as it tends to mask it well. Might be worth switching yeasts? Lager yeasts (S23) tend to drop clear - not sure what would happen if you used this on an ale. You could get a second barrel to take the beer off of the yeast and let it drop some more in there - I'm currently experimenting with this, to see if it helps as some of my mates won't drink my brews because of the yeast. I've never used finings but that might help too. Beyond that you would need some form of filtering which I've not seen for homebrew beer (though i think wine makers tend to do this).

[mysterio]

Can you describe the taste a little more?

Yeasty taste, to me, means bready, which indeed you can get with ales, especially some yeasts. It generally fades away with time.

If it's more of a tang, then you either need to age the beer a little or switch yeast. It's also a sign of old extract or using way too much simple sugar.

[mh75]

Maybe I'm wrong with saying it tastes yeasty and it is the HBT that I've read about. I dunno its hard to say.

I always use the supplied yeast that I get with the kits.

I havent made a brew that I think "yeah that tastes really nice" they nearly all taste and smell the same.

Tbh the porter is still young (only bottled 3 weeks ago) so it will prob need more time but it still has that taste and smell.

It's not a tcp taste ie chlorine and I used spring water in the last 2 brews (porter and almondbury) and I dont think its oxidisation since I use a bottling stick.

My last brew which is still in the fermenter is a coopers dark ale which was made using muntons BKE, a Flavapak and Safeale s-04 if it tastes the same then I think I will give up tbh.

I'm not a fussy beer drinker, I like nearly every type of guest ale bought from asda,tesco etc (Blandford fly is about the only one I dont like )and I was hoping to at least get one brew that could be compared to a bought bottled ale.

[Jim]

Maybe there's a homebrewer near you that would be prepared to swap beers so that a)you can taste his homebrew b)he/she can give an independant opinion of yours.

There's a limit to the standard of beer you can get from a kit, but if you use an all malt kit, the results can be very good. The main thing is to leave them to mature for long enough - 4 weeks after bottling is a minimum for an normal strength beer, and longer if stronger.

[mh75]

After having a bit of a thorough taste test I think that it may not be a yeast taste but more of a malty taste. I'm thinking that this may be due to most of my brews only fermenting down to about 1014-1016

I bunged some DBE into the coopers dark ale which has fermented down to about 1004 so we will see the difference I think