Fermentis S-04 Wierd Mineral Taste

[MrBlackrock]

Yup s-05 is my goto house yeast for cranking out party beers it ferments super clean for me at any temp sub *70 F I've thrown at it, but if you search you'll find plenty of people who can't stand it's performance who am i to say they are wrong?

As stated, it might be that the temp got too high, but it seems even people with temp control had this issue.

Like i said, i think not everyone can taste it...But for me i just cant drink it..Even the smell seems odd.

 

[Hammy71]

What do you use instead as a dry yeast. Dont always like spending double on liquid yeasts, specially for a simple beer.

I still use dry yeast on 90% of my beers. Just it's 05 instead of 04

 

[Hammy71]

Don't blame english style yeast as a group. I get the twang you're talking about and don't like S-04, but I love other English yeasts, especially WY1968.

May be true....but I used to love WLP 002. Now I get the twang from it as well. Probably in my head....but it's there none the less