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, Brettanomyces spp.

See also

• baker's yeast