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Oxidised Flavour Standard For Sensory Training
The Oxidized Flavour Standard is used to assess tasters’ ability to detect and recognize the off-notes of oxygen-exposed products, such as beer. It represents flat, old, aged, grape-like, and sherry-like flavours that can occur in beer at a specific oxidation profile. The taints mainly occur in beer due to oxygen interaction in the finished packaged product.
Oxygen generates free radicals that begin to interact with the beer – either releasing stabilized flavours (from sulphur complexes) or degrading flavours within the beer to generate off-notes.
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Sensory Terms
– Oxidised Beer
– Oxidised
– Flat
– Old
– Aged
– Grape like
– Sherry-like
Cause of Oxidized Beer Flavour
Beer oxidation flavour develops in beer due to oxygen interaction in the finished packaged product. Oxygen generates free radicals that begin to interact with the beer – either releasing stabilised flavours (from sulphur complexes) or degrading flavours within the beer to generate off-notes.
This flavour is typical of fresh packaged lager and beer that has oxidised within the first few weeks of packaging.
How To Taste
The best way to evaluate Oxidized Beer Flavour is to cover the glass with your hand and swirl it to release the aroma. Then, remove your hand and take a long sniff. Repeat as necessary.
Other Information
Please note: This FlavorActiV GMP Flavour Standard is proprietary – the food-safe flavouring contained within it is designed to represent an off-flavour type that can occur in beer at a specific oxidation profile. Other flavours within our range can fit older oxidation profiles – such as Papery and Catty.
FlavorActiV GMP Flavour Standards
Only Pharmaceutical Quality GMP Flavour Standards provide sufficient quality for professional sensory panels to train and validate with.
We produce encapsulated GMP (Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice) Flavour Standards that are safe to both smell and drink. The compounds within our capsules impart the aroma, taste and mouthfeel of a specific defect or positive flavour into a beverage for the purposes of taster training, calibration and quality control.
Our individual flavour GMP Flavour Standards are sold by flavour, each flavour pack contains 5 capsules, each separately blister packaged. Our sensory kits contain a mixture of flavours, each separately blister packaged, read the product description for flavour details.
We ship globally, and have over 20 years of experience at it. Our GMP Pharmaceutical Flavour Standards are produced to the highest standards, and as such, their shelf-life is strong and their quality consistent.
FlavorActiV’s flavour centre is the world’s only pharmaceutically run facility dedicated to the production of flavour reference standards. The Flavour Centre is a state-of-the-art facility housed within the campus of world-renowned Quay Pharma near Liverpool in the U.K.
The Flavour Centre was designed by FlavorActiV from the ground up at the direct request of global customers as they looked to move away from inferior food grade ‘certified flavour standards’ to GMP Pharma, a standard that ensures safe, stable, traceable, consistent and long shelf-life products.
All FlavorActiV’s industry-leading encapsulated flavour standards are manufactured following GMP at our Flavour Centre. All aspects of manufacture are overseen by Quay Pharma who are audited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory agency (MHRA). We also welcome customer audits.
Only FlavorActiV GMP flavour standard capsules bear our mark of authenticity.
We brand each of our capsules so that our customers know they’re getting the Pharmaceutical GMP Quality that only FlavorActiV provide.
Industry leading packaging and shelf-life
FlavorActiV flavour standards are blister packaged, which extends shelf-life and protects capsules from potential contamination. The average shelf-life of FlavorActiV flavour standards is 18 months to 4 years, depending on the flavour compounds.
We will never ship in pots or plastic packaging, here’s why…
Blister packaging protects capsules from the environment until they are ready for use. Blister packaging greatly reduces the amount of headspace for possible flavour escape. As each capsule individually blister packaged, making use of one capsule still leaves all others protected. FlavorActiV Flavour Standard packaging is 100% recyclable, as opposed to polypropylene which is not widely recycled.
Pots are semi-porous, they allow molecules to pass through and flavour to be lost, their significant headspace also adds to substantial flavour escape as a gas, even when using just one capsule all those remaining in the pot are exposed.
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