5 basic elements of a successful brewery
Today’s beer industry is more competitive than many people imagine. Increasing competition, ever-changing consumer demands, and streamlined employees are driving many craft breweries to continuously innovate. Craft breweries need to bring delicious craft beer to the market and provide consistent, high-quality beer products. Craft breweries can implement quality control plans that cover all basic knowledge
How to improve the quality and consistency of beer?
The brewery is an environment where craftsmanship, science, and exploration are integrated. It can continuously innovate and create new products, pushing the craft brewing industry to new heights. The beer flavor is at the core of the brewery’s success, especially in an era when educated consumers choose from a saturated market. The quality, consistency, and
Guide to beer off-flavors: Light-struck
The most common odor in commercial beer and craft beer is the smelly “Light-struck” flavor and aroma. It can make your beer emit a strong smell (it feels like a skunk) and make it unpleasant to drink. Guide to beer off-flavors: Light-struck What is Light-struck? When light hits the beer, the ultraviolet rays interact with
Guide to beer off-flavors: Acetic acid
No matter how many times you have brewed beer in the past when you open the first bottle of a new batch, it is always exciting. Maybe the aroma of hops will be as good as expected, maybe the beer will be muddy, or the beer will taste like vinegar. Beer that tastes like vinegar
Guide to beer off-flavors: Phenolics
Beer always contains some form of phenols (phenols and polyphenols, etc.), such as tannins (directly derived from hops and malt). Although low levels of polyphenols can increase the taste of beer, high levels of polyphenols can cause dryness and astringency. When beer glasses are described as phenols, they usually refer to volatile phenols. Volatile phenols
Beer off-flavor guide: Chlorophenol
Have you ever tried a beer that smells of medicine and tastes like band-aids? If so, it is because the beer contains chlorophenol. Chlorophenol can give the beer a plastic taste, smoke, chlorine disinfectant, or band-aid taste. Next, the brewer of Micet Craft will explain the source of chlorophenol and how to reduce the content
Guide to beer off-flavors: Metallic
It is not normal for Metallic to appear in any flavored beer. If you can taste Metallic or bloody taste in beer, it is recommended not to drink this beer. Under normal circumstances, the source of iron ions is only a very small amount of iron-containing protein in grains, which will enter the beer during
Guide to beer off-flavors: Alcoholic
Some craft beer will produce excessive alcohol taste and aroma. This can vary from a slight alcoholic warmth to strong alcohol that tastes like moonshine. Next, Micet Craft will explore the root cause of the alcoholic odor. In addition, this is also the eighth article about beer’s peculiar smell. If you are interested, you can
Acid in beer
The acid in beer is one of the flavors of beer, it can give the beer a soft and refreshing taste. At the same time, it is also an important buffer material, which is a condition to ensure the smooth progress of saccharification and fermentation. Through the introduction and discussion of the types, sources, influencing
Guide to beer off-flavors: hydrogen sulfide
The presence of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in beer will give the beer a unique smell of rotten eggs. In some beer styles, a small amount of hydrogen sulfide will form a unique flavor in the beer. But, if beer contains more hydrogen sulfide, the beer may produce a pungent rotten egg flavor, which is not
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