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 (Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice) Flavour Reference Standards are used the world over to train beverage sensory panels as they learn how taints, positive and negative flavours can influence quality and brand expectations.
They 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. Once a panel has undergone its initial training the flavour standards are used to maintain their abilities in double blind proficiency testing, supported by FlavorActiVs proprietary taster software.
FlavorActiV produces its industry leading encapsulated flavours in its state-of-the-art pharma facility designed from the ground up at the direct request of its global customers as they looked to move away from inferior food grade ‘certified flavour standards’ to GMP Pharma quality, a standard that ensures safe, stable, traceable, consistent and long shelf-life products. The MHRA audited facility is located near Liverpool in the UK.
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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.
Icon | FlavorActiV Name | Descriptor | Chemical Name |
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Acetaldehyde (Acetal) | Under-ripe fruit, green apple | acetaldehyde |
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Acetic | sour, vinegar, sharp, acidic | acetic acid |
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Alkakine | caustic, chemical cleaner | sodium bicarbonate |
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Almond | marzipan, bitter almond, cherry | benzaldehyde |
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Astringent | dry, puckery | saponin |
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Brett-Barnyard | band aid, medicinal, sweaty, horses | 4-ethyl phenol |
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Bitter | bitter taste | iso-alpha acids |
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Bromophenol | electirc fire, inky, chemical | 2-bromophenol |
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Butyric | baby vomit, rancid, cheese, parmesan | butyric acid |
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Caramel | chocolate, caramel sweets | 3-ethyl-2, 5-dimethylpyrazine |
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Catty | blackcurrant, tom car urine | p-menthane-8-thiol-3-one |
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caprylic | goat, waxy, tallowy | octanoic acid |
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Chlorophenol | disinfectant, antisepticm mouthwash | 2,6-dichlorophenol |
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Cooked Vegetables | cooked cauliflower, cabbage | methylthio-acetate |
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Diacetyl | buttery, butterscotch, creamy, toffee | butane-2,3-dione |
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DMS | sweetcorn, tomato sauce | dimethyl sulphide |
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Earthy | wet earth, damp soil | 2-ethyl fenchol |
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Ethyl Acetate | mail enamel, acetone | ethyl acetate |
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Ethyl Hexanoate | fruity, apple, aniseed | ethyl hexanoate |
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Geraniol | floral, rose water | geraniol |
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Freshly Cut Grass | leafy, headge trimmings | cis-3-haxanoate |
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H2S | sulphury, rotten eggs | hydrogen sulphide |
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Honey | ethyl phenyl acetate | |
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Hop Oil | Hops | oil derived from target hops |
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Indole | pigs, faecal, farmyard, coliform, jasmin | indole |
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Isoamyl Acetate | fruity, banana | isoamyl acetate |
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Isoamyl Alcohol | fusel oil, fruity, banana, estery | isoamyl alchohol |
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Isolvaleric | sweaty, cheesy, rancid | isovaleric acid |
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Kettle Hops | ketones and terpenes from hop oil | |
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Lactic | sour milk, yoghurt | lactic acid |
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Leathery | mouth drying, animal hyde | pyralone (6-1 methyl propyl) quinolone |
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Lightstruck | skunk, sulphur | 3-methyl-2-butene-1-thiol |
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Malty/Biscuity | toasted grain, malt | 2-acetylpyridin |
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Methanethiol | rotten vegetables, leek-like | methyl mercaptan |
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Mercaptan | sulphury, drain gas | ethanethiol |
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Metallic | metal, iron rust, blook-like | ferrous sulphate |
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Methional | peeled potato, mashed potato | 3-methylsulfanylpropanal |
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Motor Fuel | diesel, heavy solvent, gasoline | p-cymene |
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Mousy | mouse, white crackers | 2-acetyltrahdropyridine |
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Mushroom | fungus, metallic | octan-1-ol |
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Musty | corked wine, musty, damp | 2,4,6 trichloroanisole |
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Cooked Onion | garlic like | dimethyl trisulphide |
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Oxidised | old beer, aged, standing beer | oxidised |
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Papery | wet paper, cardboard | trans-2-nonenal |
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Phenolic | spicy, herbal, cloves | 4-vinyl guiacol |
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Plastic | polystyrene, melting plastic | styrene |
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DMDS | rotten vegetavkesm sulphury | dimethyl disulphide (DMDS) |
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Salty | salt | sodium chloride |
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Smoky | all spice, clove oil | eugenol |
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Sulphitic | struck match, choking | sulphur dioxide |
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Sweet | sugar | sucrose |
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Sour | lemon, acid, sour milk | citric acid |
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Yeasty | fermented, sulphurous, yeast | active dried yeast |
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Vanilla | Cusstard-like, Cream Soda | Vanillin |
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Grainy | Green Malt, Fresh Grains | 2-methyl propiondaldehyde |
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