Read the thread, have one thing to add which may or may not help. When do you start noticing the yeasty taste. Do you taste your hydrometer samples? Do you (like me when I bottle) sample the leftovers from bottling. There is always that last 1/2 bottle or so that does not fill up a bottle completely.
Do all of your friends (since there are a lot of we's in your descriptions) notice the same taste? Do you all describe it the same way? Is it something you can match to one of the off flavor description charts?
Commercial beers and home brewed beers are all made with the same ingredients. Water, hops, barley, adjuncts, yeast, time and temperature. the only real differences are that in a commercial setting the volumes are drastically increased, and all the bells and whistles are being used including water chemistry, and filtering.
What may be most useful to diagnosing what exactly the taste is would be to submit one/some brews to a competition or have a BJCP judge sample them and let you know what they taste. Sometimes we are our most critical judges of our own beers. BJCP judges and fellow homebrewers will not hesitate to tell you what they see as being wrong as we know how useful a "its good" or "Its crap" comment can be.
Do all of your friends (since there are a lot of we's in your descriptions) notice the same taste? Do you all describe it the same way? Is it something you can match to one of the off flavor description charts?
Commercial beers and home brewed beers are all made with the same ingredients. Water, hops, barley, adjuncts, yeast, time and temperature. the only real differences are that in a commercial setting the volumes are drastically increased, and all the bells and whistles are being used including water chemistry, and filtering.
What may be most useful to diagnosing what exactly the taste is would be to submit one/some brews to a competition or have a BJCP judge sample them and let you know what they taste. Sometimes we are our most critical judges of our own beers. BJCP judges and fellow homebrewers will not hesitate to tell you what they see as being wrong as we know how useful a "its good" or "Its crap" comment can be.
