Routine or occasional beer chemical analysis from simple to complicated.

Whether it's for the purpose of benchmarking your products, getting some independent data with which to assess the performance of your own laboratory, developing greater insight into your products and processes, or helping to track down the root cause of a process problem.

For many analytes we use methodologies approved by the American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC), European Brewery Convention (EBC), and Institute of Brewing and Distilling (IBD). Some specialist analyses make use of proprietary testing methods. Tests are carried out in accordance with our BS EN ISO 9001: 2008 certified quality management system.

Microbiological tests applicable to finished beer, in-process samples, and yeast.

Whether you are troubleshooting a hygiene problem, dealing with a trade recall or just trying to make sure your attention to hygiene is as good as you think it is, we can help.

Our experienced microbiology team is at your disposal for testing of packaged beer, in-process samples, and yeast. We pay particular attention to method validation and performance  so you can rely on the results we produce for you. We use methods approved by the American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC), European Brewery Convention (EBC), and Institute of Brewing & Distilling (IBD). All tests are carried out within our UK laboratories according to our BS EN ISO 9001:2008-certified quality management system.

Sensory tests to track product consistency and help fix process problems.

How your beer tastes can tell you a lot. Sensory tests can help predict the degree of commercial success you can expect, tell you how consistent your product is, provide you with metrics related to your product stability, and help you track and resolve raw materials and process problems.

Information generated by our expert tasters can be used alongside chemical analysis and results generated by your own tasters to give greater insight into your products and processes. Use the results to assess product quality and understand your flavour profile.

Our tasters can identify more than 100 beer flavours, including a variety of off-flavours and taints.

Yeast analysis to provide you with an independent evaluation of your production yeast.

The performance of your yeast is one of the main drivers of the performance of your brewery. A poor-performing yeast will give rise to poor fermentations which, in turn, will result in poor beer and lost sales revenue.

It's a fact of life that yeast has a tendency to change over time - mutation, senescence, and microbiological contamination all play their part.

We can offer you a variety of phenotypic and genotypic tests to assess strain purity, and check the integrity and performance of your yeast. We can evaluate fermentation performance, flocculation, and flavour production and more. Let's find out your yeast is up to challenges you've set for it.