mr_fuggles
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First post here - been reading for a while. Thanks to everyone for the great resource you've created here. It has really helped me out.
I brewed an APA a few weeks back with a very standard recipe (DME+Crystal+Chinook+Cascade) and the wort smelled/tasted great. I pitched the Brew Cellar American Ale Yeast which I hadn't used before just for something different, and ended up with a beer having a very medicinal/metallic taste to it which I think might be the result of the yeast (can't think of what else it would be). Also, the fermentationtookabout 48 hourstostart andusually only takesmeabout12 hours orless whenIrehydratea dry yeast prior to pitching.
I've read from searching these forums thatitisthesameas the SafaleUS05yeast,but I've managedtoscrewup arelatively simplebeerand it's eithera funkyyeast or ithas beeninfected somehow.
I've used US05 before and loved it.
Anybody else had a bad experience with this yeast?
EDIT: I should add that when I rehydrated the yeast, it did have a slightly stronger/funkier smell than other dry yeasts I've used.... maybe I should have given up on it then?
I brewed an APA a few weeks back with a very standard recipe (DME+Crystal+Chinook+Cascade) and the wort smelled/tasted great. I pitched the Brew Cellar American Ale Yeast which I hadn't used before just for something different, and ended up with a beer having a very medicinal/metallic taste to it which I think might be the result of the yeast (can't think of what else it would be). Also, the fermentationtookabout 48 hourstostart andusually only takesmeabout12 hours orless whenIrehydratea dry yeast prior to pitching.
I've read from searching these forums thatitisthesameas the SafaleUS05yeast,but I've managedtoscrewup arelatively simplebeerand it's eithera funkyyeast or ithas beeninfected somehow.
I've used US05 before and loved it.
Anybody else had a bad experience with this yeast?
EDIT: I should add that when I rehydrated the yeast, it did have a slightly stronger/funkier smell than other dry yeasts I've used.... maybe I should have given up on it then?