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Climbing the Quality Pyramid
Date and Lot Coding of Beer
Shelf Life
In this excerpt from Building a Sensory Program: A Brewer’s Guide to Beer Evaluation, the author discusses ongoing quality control for beer that has already entered the market.
Getting Quality-Conscious in the Brewpub
Not all brewers are conscientious and competent stewards of our collective brand of craft beer, but brewpubs can be incubators for the quality-conscious phenomenon.
Quality Management in the Brewpub
Brewpubs must have a diverse list of high quality beers on tap to satisfy fans, but those same fans are less tolerant than ever of beer that isn’t at its peak freshness or has flaws.
Attention to Detail
Monitoring and controlling packaging operations is one of the biggest challenges to beer quality, and it often distinguishes good brewers from great brewers.
Food Safety in Beer Packaging
Since packaging operations are the last set of a brewery’s process steps to touch beer before it’s consumed, it’s essential that breweries pay strict attention to food safety.
Evaluating Malt Flavor: The Hot Steep Method
The Hot Steep method, a rapid wort preparation method approved by the ASBC, will allow breweries of all sizes and budgets to easily evaluate extractable malt flavor.
Building a Sensory Program
Objectively measuring quality is a three-legged stool with microbiology, chemistry, and sensory forming the platform. Of the three, sensory can be the most approachable.
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