pnh2atl

Recipes 

I'm thinking about doing a cream ale next week and have some White Labs Belgian Wit yeast that I wanted to try to use. I was wondering what impact this would have on the over all flavor of the beer.

Is there anything to consider when using alternate yeasts or is that dumb? This is batch number 6 so I've still got a lot to learn.

Thanks,

Nick

__________________
http://www.reformationbrewery.com/

Yooper

Recipes 

It's not dumb- it's a great question. Yeast strain can have a huge impact on flavor, depending on a variety of other factors. Some yeast strains are "clean" and neutral, some give fruitiness a forefront, etc. I wouldn't sue a Belgian Wit strain in a cream ale, unless you were planning on having a Belgian-inspired cream ale. Cream ales are very light, not fruity, and use a very neutral yeast.

__________________
Broken Leg Brewery
Giving beer a leg to stand on since 2006

NAVET

Recipes 

Some good information.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/yeast-affects-flavor-124195/

__________________
A "Veteran" -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve -- is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America," for an amount of "up to, and including his life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country today, who no longer understand that fact.