Beer Sensory
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Beer Sensory Services
FlavorActiV is committed to promoting good sensory practices across the whole beverage industry. A team of expert taster trainers, supported by consultant beverage experts, are combining their years of insider experience with advanced human calibration tools, tailored sensory programmes and instruments to give unparalleled sensory support.
FlavorActiV have a history of working alongside the industry’s leading organisations, establishing and maintaining good sensory practices globally. Moving forward, FlavorActiV continues to build on its goal of establishing an industry-wide global beer flavour language, supported initally by FlavorActiV’s GMP flavour standards to train tasters to recognise defects and positives in Beer, and progressing to measure and maintain tasters skills and education level through advanced proprietary calibration tools and software.
If you have any questions about beer sensory management, please contact beer@flavoractiv.com.
FlavorActiV GMP Flavour Reference Standards
FlavorActiV’s pharmaceutical grade, GMP Flavour Standards are safe to smell, taste and drink, and can be used in almost any liquid to impart a real flavour, off-note, or taint. The spirit flavour standards were developed in FlavorActiV's dedicated pharmaceutical facility in the UK are sold individually in packs of 5 capsules, each capsule separately blister packed to provide flavour protection and prolonged shelf life. Production adheres to strict Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) pharmaceutical quality controls. FlavorActiV's dedicated GMP Flavour Centre is certified and regulated by the UK Government’s Medicine Regulatory & Healthcare Product Agency (MHRA) to a standard which far exceed ISO 9001, ISO 17025 or any food grade certification.
Each of the 57 flavours below has undergone evaluation by FlavorActiV's Sensory Systems team as well as the Beer industry directly prior to inclusion within FlavorActiV's latest Beer Flavour Lexicon and Library as important beer flavour reference standards.
| Acetaldehyde (Acetal) Under-Ripe Fruit, Green Apple Acetaldehyde | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Acetic Acid Sour, Vinegar, sharp, Acidic Acetic | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Alkaline Caustic, Chemical Cleaner Sodium Bicarbonate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Almond Marzipan, Bitter Almond, Cherry Benzaldehyde | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Astringent Dry, Puckery Saponin | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Brett-Barnyard Band Aid, Medicinal, Sweaty, Horses 4-Ethyl Phenol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Bitter Bitter Taste Iso-Alpha-Acids | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Bromophenol Electric Fire, Inky, Chemical 2-Bromophenol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Butyric Baby Vomit, Rancid, Cheese, Parmesan Butyric Acid | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Caramel Caramel, Chocolate 3-Ethyl-2, 5-Dimethylpyrazine | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Catty Blackcurrant, Tom Cat Urine P-Menthane-8-Thiol-3-One | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Caprylic Goat, Waxy, Tallowy Octanoic Acid | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Chlorophenol Disinfectant, Antiseptic, Mouthwash 2, 6-Dichlorophenol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Cooked Vegetables Cooked Cauliflower / Cabbage Methylthio-Acetate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Diacetyl Buttery, Butterscotch, Creamy, Toffee Butane-2,3-dione | Buy Now ❱ | |
| DMS Sweetcorn, Tomato Sauce Dimethyl Sulphide | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Earthy Wet Earth, Damp Soil 2-Ethyl Fenchol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Ethyl Acetate Nail Enamel, Solvent, Acetone, Acetone Ethyl Acetate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Ethyl Butyrate Tropical Fruit, Pineapple Ethyl Butyrate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Ethyl Hexanoate Fruity, Apple, Aniseed Ethyl Hexanoate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Geraniol Floral, Rose Water Geraniol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Freshly Cut Grass Leafy, Hedge Trimmings Cis-3-Hexanoate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Grainy Green, Harsh, Green Malt Character Iso-Butyraldehyde | Buy Now ❱ | |
| H2S Sulphury, Rotten Eggs Hydrogen Sulphide | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Honey Ethyl Phenyl Acetate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Hop Oil Green Apple Oil derived from target hops | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Indole Pig, Faecal, Farmyard, Coliform, Jasmin Indole | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Isoamyl Acetate Fruity, Banana Isoamyl Acetate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Isoamyl Alcohol Fusel Oil, Fruity, Banana, Estery Isoamyl Alcohol | Buy Now ❱ |
| Isovaleric Sweaty, Cheesy, Rancid Isovaleric Acid | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Kettle Hops Ketones & Terpenes From Hop Oil | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Lactic Sour Milk, Yoghurt Lactic Acid | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Leathery Mouth Drying, Animal Hyde Pyralone (6-1 Methyl Propyl) Quinolone | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Lightstruck Skunk, Sulphur 3-Methyl-2-Butene-1-Thiol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Malty / Biscuity Toasted Grain, Malt 2-Acetylpyridin | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Methanethiol Rotten Vegetables, Leek-like Methyl Mercaptan | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Mercaptan Sulphury, Drain Gas, Butana-like Ethanethiol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Metallic Metal, Iron Rust, Blook-like Ferrous Sulphate | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Methional Peeled Potato, Mashed Potato 3-Methylsulfanylpropanal | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Motor Fuel Diesel, Heavy Solvent, Gasoline P-Cymene | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Mousy Mouse, White Crackers 2-Acetyletrahydropyridine | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Mushroom Fungus, Metallic Octan-1-ol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Musty Corked Wine, Musty, Damp 2,4,6 Trichloroanisole | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Cooked Onion Garlic-like Dimethyl Trisulphide | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Oxidised Old Beer, Aged, Standing Beer Oxidised | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Papery Wet Paper, Cardboard Trans-2-Nonenal | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Plastic Polystyrene, Melting Plastic Styrene | Product Details ❱ Buy Now ❱ |
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| Phenolic Spicy, Herbal, Cloves 4-Vinyl Guiacol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| DMDS Rotten Vegetables, Sulphury Dimethyl Disulphide (DMDS) | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Salty Salt Sodium Chloride | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Smoky Smoked Meat, Kippers Guiacol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Spicy All Spice, Clove Oil Eugenol | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Sulphitic Struck Match, Choking Sulphur Dioxide | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Sweet Sugar Sucrose | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Sour Lemon, Acid, Sour Milk Citric Acid | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Yeasty Fermented, Sulphurous, Yeast Active Dried Yeast | Buy Now ❱ | |
| Vanilla Custard-like, Cream Soda Vanillin | Buy Now ❱ |
Beer Sensory Plan
1 › Train
Train using FlavorActiV's GMP Beer Flavour Standards & Kits. Our multi-lingual team provide training in over 15 languages.
2 › Calibrate
Receive regular beer proficiency kits to test your abilities. Input data into our proprietary software to benchmark your results globally.
3 › Maintain
FlavorActiV advanced training sessions and industry specific workshops will see your sensory knowledge continually grow across the range of flavour reference standards.
4 › Improve
Continual optimisation and analysis of support and package coupled with supply of GMP Flavour Standards.
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