The tasting is an very important procedure before beer leaves the brewery and reaches the consumer. The consumer does no chemical investigations on the beer. The only things that the consumer is interested in are taste, smell, colour, turbidity, foam stability and a certain shelf life. The chemical investigations that are done in the brewery are necessary to guarantee for example the shelf life, but there are a lot of chemical groups that can cause off flavours and unwanted smells. Because of this, it is indispensable to carry out a tasting before beer leaves the brewery

Tasting - basics and procedures