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Reply To: Can you help me with this water report?

Brad Danforth — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:13:49 +0000

This is a great resource if you are looking to adjust for specific styles…. water book is great too of course

https://shop.theelectricbrewery.com/pages/water-adjustment

Can Liners and Their Invisible Intricacies

Adriana Terron — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:03:14 +0000

The Brewers Association (BA) has compiled all its own can liner-related material alongside useful outside sources in Understanding the Complex World of Can Liners, written by the BA’s Supply Chain Subcommittee. This neatly stacked pallet of resources addresses corrosion, off flavors, types of coatings, common defects, liner technology improvements, and necessary validation checks.

And for anyone wanting an extra deep dive to the very bottom of a can’s coating mysteries, here are some additional nuggets for you:

Food Science & Nutrition’s Binding of volatile aroma compounds to can linings with different polymeric characteristics discusses a study done to examine the scalping of flavor compounds by can lining materials.
The Hansen Solubility Parameters (HSP) Flavor Scalping Calculator is an interesting tool that reveals whether your can liner polymer might have a worrisome HSP distance to specific flavor molecules in your packaged liquid. (Always use thorough quality and validation assessment processes first to ensure package performance.)

It’s corn!: Preventing the DMS Off Flavor

Adriana Terron — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:35:46 +0000

As “ah-maize-ing” as a buttery, juicy corn on the cob can be, it’s not often a desired flavor in beer. Check out the most recent addition to the Brewers Association’s (BA) Off Flavor Management series: dimethyl sulfide (DMS), written by the BA’s Quality Subcommittee. Characterized as having a creamed or canned corn aroma, DMS can be avoided if proper steps are taken in the brewhouse and during fermentation. Read more to gain all the “corn-fidence” you need to ensure your beer tastes DMS-free.

So Fresh, So True to Brand

Adriana Terron — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:49:41 +0000

The ribbon’s just been cut on a new landing page where all the Brewers Association’s (BA) Beer Freshness resources reside. Check out the sparkly-clean Beer Freshness Series page to find everything you need to know about keeping beer fresh, including mitigating oxygen across all process areas and using dissolved oxygen sensors appropriately. More additions coming soon, so stay tuned!

Reply To: Is Your Brewhouse a Lazy River or a Splash Zone?

Adriana Terron — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:50:22 +0000

Corrected checklist is now linked. Thanks again!