champagne yeast

[VermontFreedom]

Is there anything wrong with always using champagne yeast for meads? I understand it's useful pretty much only if you're expecting high alcohol content, but I'm concerned about off flavors with basic wine yeasts. Any thoughts?

 

[NEPABREWER]

what determines what yeast goes in what beverage anyway?

 

[homebrewer_99]

Let me try to answer both of your questions:

There's nothing wrong with Champagne yeast. You can get it to produce a sweet mead or a dry mead.

What determines what yeast goes in what beverage anyway? Same answer. You use a yeast that produces either a sweet or dry mead.