One yeast for everything

[Backwoodsbrewing]

Yeast matters my man. If all you want to do is brew really clean ales with no yeast character, you can probably get buy with just one yeast, but who wants to brew the same style all the time? White Labs didn't manufacture all those variations merely to drive sales, they manufactured them because beer is that widely variable style to style and around the world. The right yeast is mandatory if you're brewing to style. If you're just brewing what you like, this conversation is academic. If you like your Scotch Ale with an American Ale yeast instead of an Irish Ale yeast, brew it your way! And fwiw, I do brew my Irish Stouts with SD Super (WLP 090) and have won a couple awards...so the substitution you're citing is indeed a viable one.

no this a good way to pick up valuable information after I started this thread it made sense to me. Most of the tap rooms and microbreweries I have visited use a lot of the same yeast for everything and a lot of their beer taste the same "approachable". As I have been told. I would rather brew a porter that taste like a porter.