yeast guide

[augwld]

After brewing beer for many years I learned a lot, not enough, about the importance of yeast. I'm making wine at the moment. Waiting on a kegging system till I return to beer brewing. Anyways, has anyone compiled a yeast guide? Something to help any of us choose the right yeast when we experiment? Ie: a beer yeast guide and a wine yeast guide. Or does anyone know of websites that could demystify the yeast aspect. After a 14 year hiatus, I went to my local supplier and was stupefied by all the yeast varieties.
Thanks.

 

[day_trippr]

The internet provides all.

If you wander around to the yeast producer web sites they all provide helpful guides for style, performance, etc. For a good example, you can start with the Wyeast Style Guidelines page, find any particular style of beer you're interested in, and it will provide a rich outline of the pertinent characters and their recommended strains.

From there you can also find sites that will correlate one producer's strain with another - so if you find a Wyeast strain for a style you want to brew but your LHBS only carries White Labs, you can usually find their equivalent strain.

The vast depth and breadth of information available at one's fingertips from the merest effort with Google is boggling, especially for us moldy old timers who remember what an Encyclopedia Britannica was...

Cheers!