I'm seven homebrews into my brewing life and I can't seem to shake a certain flavor. For about three brews I was using a Mr Beer kit and pretty cheap packet dry yeast. As I grew more and more frustrated (and the beers aged and maintained that same flavor) I went out and bought a carboy and started using much better White Labs yeast. I am still just steeping grains and using LME and the only brew I have really enjoyed (a cherry stout) was made with DME. The flavor could best be described as a yeasty syrupy taste that overpowers any great hop or grain flavor. I used about 6oz of hops in my last 3 gallon batch and it tastes like a syrupy pale. Totally undesirable. This flavor has lasted in my earliest of brews so it doesn't seem much attributed with conditioning time. Should I blame it on the LME and just make the switch over to all-grain? My favorite style has got to be Imperial IPA and tasting the specific hop flavors is most important to me. I can give recipes if it would help pinpoint the problem even better. I just want all of my homebrews to stop tasting the same!