Cider Digest #0396

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 · 7 months ago

Subject: re: Yeasty taste 
Date: 30 Dec 93 23:27:30 MST (Thu) 
From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) 

Just a quick note in response to Trevor Keough's problem:  In general,  
a "yeasty taste" is not normally due to the presence of yeast _per_se_, but 
rather due to byproducts that aren't supposed to be there. 

The question comes up now and then among homebrewers or winemakers who've 
gotten an off-taste and wonder if they put in too much yeast.  The answer 
is invariably "no"...because the yeast population after you get a batch 
going is at least a couple orders of magnitude larger than what you start 
with. 

The relevance to Trevor's problem is that it's not really an issue of 
letting the yeast die off, nor settle out.  It may be a matter of letting 
some off-taste of a byproduct age out. 
 --- 
Dick Dunn    rcd@eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado USA 
   ...Simpler is better. 

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