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Brewery labs do not have to be complex and can be built and maintained on any brewery’s budget. Use the resources in this section to make your brewery lab and keep ensuring quality in your beer.
An overview of technical issues in pub brewing, with an emphasis on how to use the brewpub format as a platform for producing a wide range of beers while maintaining sterling levels of quality control. Read More
Zach, Victory Brewing Company’s quality lab technician, discusses the basics of diacetyl production and the key factors contributing to its formation during fermentation. Learn various methods of diacetyl detection, from practical sensory evaluation to more scientific instruments for inspection. Lastly, …Read More
Focusing on yeast health and pitching rates can impact quality throughout the brewing process. This presentation reviews traditional yeast counting and pitching rates for primary fermentation and introduces techniques to fine-tune flavor and brewery processes, ultimately giving the brewer more …Read More
Even without the latest lab equipment for quality control, you can still focus on quality assurance—the proactive side—and do the work correctly in the first place.
To learn about how some Old World breweries have implemented best practices in QC/QA, we spoke with Peter Romeis of Institute Romeis, a major beverage analytics lab.
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