brewer's yeast

brewer's yeast

English

Noun

brewer's yeast (plural brewer's yeasts)

1. Any live yeast used in brewing or yeast obtained as a by-product of brewing, dried and killed, and used as nutritional yeast.

Hyponyms

• (yeast associated with brewing): Saccharomyces cerevisiae (ale yeast), Saccharomyces pastorianus (formerly Saccharomyces carlsbergensis), Dekkera spp (anamorph), Brettanomyces spp. (teleomorph)

Translations

yeast used in brewing or yeast obtained as a by-product of brewing, used as nutritional yeast

German: Brauhefe f

Irish: giosta bríbhéireachta m

See also

• baker's yeast