I hope you like fruit!

I brewed what should have been a very nice Irish Red a while back. The grain bill looks good, the hopping seemed right, but the one unknown was the yeast. White Labs WLP004 Irish Ale yeast. It's an Irish beer, so Irish Ale yeast should be just the ticket, right? Wrong! This yeast produced a host of fruity flavors in the beer. It completely upsets the balance and makes the beer hard to drink.

I'm disappointed, but I'm not going to give up so easily. I'm going to brew the same recipe again, but substitute either a clean Ale yeast or a clean lager yeast. There is a good beer hiding in this recipe. I'll find it yet.