Yeat flavor??

[oshea3333]

I am a extract/ partial grain brewer. I normally stick to the 1-2-3 method for fermenting but hav a consistent yeasty after flavor to my beers. Is this normal for homebrew or am i getting an off flavor?? will filtration solve this??

[markaberrant]

Originally posted by oshea3333
I am a extract/ partial grain brewer. I normally stick to the 1-2-3 method for fermenting but hav a consistent yeasty after flavor to my beers. Is this normal for homebrew or am i getting an off flavor?? will filtration solve this??

Yeasty flavours can be quite good in my opinion... depends on the style and the type of yeast.

Please don't take offence, but before my palette and sense improved, what I thought was "yeasty," was often something else. Example: I thought High Life had a yeasty taste, but it was actually a butt load of corn (typically not used in most Canadian fizzy lagers).

What kind of commercial beer do you like? I ask with the best of intentions... homebrew often has A LOT more flavour than your typical "beer." You could be tasting off flavours, or you could just be tasting a full flavoured beer.

Can you give us an example recipe of a beer you made that has this characteristic? This is probably the best place to start. Then I'm sure we'll be asking about specific procedures and what not too.

[dparsons]

Possibilities from http://www.howtobrew.com/section4/chapter21-2.html

Yeasty
The cause of this flavor is pretty easy to understand. If the yeast is unhealthy and begins autolyzing it will release compounds that can only be described as yeasty. Also if the beer is green, too young, and the yeast has not had time to settle out, it will have a yeasty taste. Watch your pouring method too, keep the yeast layer on the bottom of the bottle.

[HogieWan]

dparson's quote from howtobrew.com said everything I was thinking. leave a little more than you normally would in the bottom of the next bottle and see if the flavor is still there or at least diminished. I would seriously doubt autolysis to be a problem with the 1-2-3 method unless you were using years instead of weeks.