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	Sensory testing services - professional beer tasting How your beer tastes can tell you a lot. Sensory analysis - otherwise known as beer tasting - can help you predict the degree of commercial success you can expect to enjoy, tell you how consistent the flavour of your beer is, provide you with metrics related to your beer flavour stability, and help you track and resolve raw materials and process problems. Information generated by our highly trained expert beer taste panel can be used alongside that generated by your own beer tasters to give you greater confidence and insight in the flavour of your beers and the processes you use to make them. Dismiss any ideas that such tests are based on assessor opinion rather than fact. Beer flavour standards are used as verifiable reference materials to assure beer taster competence and performance in all beer tasting sessions. This beer tasting done properly. + Descriptive profiling A full descriptive profile of your beer. Sixty-two beer flavour attributes are evaluated for each beer. All samples are tasted in duplicate by at least six expert assessors. All beer tasting is carried out blind. Reference beers, some of which contain added beer flavour standards are included to assure taste panel performance. Results presented in a succinct, easy to understand report. Perfect for developing an understanding of existing beers and new products. + Quality tests A lower cost option for routine independent evaluation of your beer flavour. All beer samples are tasted in duplicate by at least six expert tasters. All tasting is carried out blind. Reference beers, some of which contain added beer flavour standards are included to assure taste panel performance. Metrics generated can be trended over time and split by beer brand and brewery to provide further insight. + Flavour stability tests Beer flavour stability is of considerable importance in today's demanding beer market. A prerequisite for improvement of beer flavour stability is having a reliable metric for the flavour life of the target beer. We divide a single batch of beer in two, storing one sub-batch at 0C and the other at 30C for various times. Our expert taste panel then tastes the beer samples generated. A flavour life value is generated for your beer, providing a baseline from which your improvement initiatives can be monitored.
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yeast testing

Routine or occasional chemical analysis of all beers - lager, ale, and wheat beer.

Whether it's for the purpose of benchmarking your beers, getting some independent data with which to assess the performance of your own laboratory, developing greater insight into your beers and the brewing procesess used to make them, or helping to track down the root cause of a process problem in your brewery, we can help.

For many analytes we use methodologies approved by the American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC), European Brewery Convention (EBC), or Institute of Brewing & 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 testing of packaged beer, in-process samples, and brewery 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.

An independent laboratory evaluation of your production brewing 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.

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