A spoilage yeast that can cause what are commonly described as barnyard aromas and flavors in a wine. Some people feel that, in small amounts, it can add a pleasant spicy, leathery component or comple [..]

A type of yeast and more specifically a genus of single-celled yeasts that ferment sugar and are important to the beer and wine industries due to the sensory flavors they produce. Brettanomyces, or “B [..]

A wine spoilage yeast that produces taints in wine commonly described as barnyard or band-aids.

The anamorphic form of the Yeast Dekkera. It is implicated as a spoilage microorganism in Wines.

a strain of yeast that commonly lives on fruit. It can also ferment beer, although it works more slowly than Saccharomyces. It is also far less predictable than Brewer's yeast and can often lead to funky and sour flavors

a yeast that produces horsey, cheesy or barnyard aromas and flavors, generally undesirable in beer except in lambics and a few others.

Or just “brett” to some wine buffs. A controversial fault in wine caused by a rogue strain of YEAST. It imparts a “mousey” aroma that some find repulsive, some find adds character, particularly in Rhô [..]