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Practical Brewing Guide from C.H.I.P.S.

Laboratory Methods for Craft Brewers
edited by Rena M. Crumplen

Laboratory Methods for Craft Brewers includes 45 methods that will help craft brewers ensure quality through tests of consistency, accuracy and reliability.

Selected state-of-the-art methods included in the book cover Malt, Hops, Beer, Microbiology, Filter Aids, and Sensory Analysis. Laboratory Methods for Craft Brewers provides the backbone to consistent brewing quality with selected methods important to all craft brewers.

The methods in this manual are accepted by industry professionals as practical and appropriate for judging brewing excellence and fineness. These methods help define quality by explaining what measurements can and should be made, and how they can be made.

Laboratory Methods for Craft Brewers provides techniques for rigorous quality testing which will help craft brewers repeatedly produce excellent specialty beer to meet the high standards of their market.

Contents

Malt Methods

  • Sampling
  • Mealiness
  • Moisture
  • Extract
  • High-Dried, Caramel, and Black Malts
  • Malt Modification by Friability

Hops Methods

  • Sampling
  • Physical Examination

Wort Methods

  • Sampling
  • Apparent Extract by Hydrometer
  • Iodine Reaction
  • pH (Hydrogen Ion Concentration)

Beer Methods

  • Sampling
  • Specific Gravity by Pycnometer
  • Alcohol
  • Real Extract
  • Color
  • Dissolved Carbon Dioxide: Pressure Method for Beer in Tanks
  • Foam Collapse Rate-Sigma Value Method
  • Beer Bitterness
  • Testing for Taste Difference Between Two Beers
  • Dissolved Oxygen

Microbiology Methods

  • Sampling
  • Yeast Examination
  • Dead Yeast Cell Stain
  • Microscopic Yeast Cell Counting
  • Differential Staining-Gram Stain

Filter Aids Methods

  • Sampling
  • Effect on Odor and Taste

Sensory Analysis Methods

  • Terms and Definition
  • Test Room, Equipment, Conduct of Test
  • Choice of Method
  • Selection and Training of Assessors
  • Triangular Method
  • Flavor Terminology and Reference Standards

Appendices

  • Instrument Standardization
  • Tables for Extract Determination in Malt and Cereals
  • Tables for Extract Determination in Wort andt Beer
  • Tables for Determination of Alcohol Content

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Laboratory Methods for Craft Brewers
edited by Rena M. Crumplen
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