There are NO bad beer yeasts!

[jlm]

I love each half kilo block of s04 I pitch equally.........Can't say the same for the results.

 

[Phoney]

If there was no such thing as bad beer yeasts, we wouldnt bother buying that fancy liquid stuff from Wyeast and Whitelabs - when we could just buy packets Brigalow yeast hanging on the shelves at kmart.

 

[tricache]

So is bakers yeast just a yeast I haven't mastered yet?

My mead I have made with it tastes pretty damn nice...I know there is mead specific yeast but still it is hardly rocket fuel which burns like a mofo!

 

[probablynathan]

If there was no such thing as bad beer yeasts, we wouldnt bother buying that fancy liquid stuff from Wyeast and Whitelabs - when we could just buy packets Brigalow yeast hanging on the shelves at kmart.

Derp.

Really?

 

[James85]

Does anyone know what the coopers kit yeast is? I've used it heaps of times with excellent results.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Its made by maui. It is not the same strain as there brewery yeast

 

[Camo6]

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/75115-foam-on-top-of-wort-without-adding-yeast/

Ross, your thread title needs to be more specific.

"There are NO bad commercially produced beer yeasts but maybe some average wild ones."

 

[James85]

Coopers must be a better strain than Brigalow though

 

[Silver]

Coopers must be a better strain than Brigalow though

Why?
I am led to believe this is the yeast. http://www.maurivin.com/y.aspx?id=14&menu=open&parentid=286&menuid=323

 

[tricache]

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/75115-foam-on-top-of-wort-without-adding-yeast/

Ross, your thread title needs to be more specific.

"There are NO bad commercially produced beer yeasts but maybe some average wild ones."

I don't know that might turn out to be a pretty awesome lambic :lol:

 

[Logman]

Seems to me that the hardest part of brewing to master and get a great feel for is fermentation - little wonder there is so much talk of bad yeast

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Damn you Monty Python

Every yeast is sacred, every yeast is good.......if a yeast gets wasted then god gets quite irrate

 

[Rurik]

It's funny recently I brewed an APA, fermented it with US 05 and gave it a good shot of oxygen. From memory it went from around the 1.048 mark to below 1.010. Nice and malty, very clean to the taste. Took it to a party at which there were some brewers. One of them was trashing US05 because it was a dried yeast but could not stop raving about my APA. He was a little shocked when I told him what the yeast was. What do I conclude from this? Chose the right yeast for the job and treat it well and it will make good beer for you.

 

[TimL]

According to the jims beer kit website,saf 04 and dried nottingham seem to be the yeasts of choice for the majority of english micro's,if it's good enough for them....,having said that just made a cracking epa with 1469