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DMS Flavour Standard
The DMS flavour standard helps train professional tasters to recognise the potency of the DMS (Dimethyl sulphide) character in beer. DMS is a common flavour and a desirable characteristic of some beers. However, at higher concentrations, this is seen as an off-flavour that should be managed by the fermentation process.
DMS (Dimethyl Sulphide) has an aroma of cooked or creamed corn, sweetcorn, and vegetables like asparagus and cabbage.
Understanding the role of DMS in beer plays a critical role in beer quality, making it essential for tasters to distinguish between appropriate and excessive levels.
Our DMS training will equip professional tasters with the skills needed to identify and manage the unique DMS character in beers.
We ship globally – shipping costs may apply depending on your region
Minimum Order: £275
Sensory Terms
– Sweetcorn
– Creamed corn
– Tomato sauce
– Vegetable like
– Sulphurous
DMS, like boiled sweetcorn or tomato sauce, is a certified beer Flavour Standard used to train professional beer tasters to identify and scale the intensity of DMS characters. DMS is formed from the breakdown of malt-derived components due to heat and, to a lesser extent, from the activity of brewer’s yeast. Bacterial contaminants can also produce it.
Cause of DMS (Dimethyl Sulphide) Flavour
The DMS (Dimethyl Sulphide) flavour is caused in alcoholic beverages by the fermentation process – DMS is a common flavour and a desirable characteristic of some beers. At higher concentrations, the DMS (Dimethyl Sulphide) is seen as an off-flavour that should be managed by the fermentation process.
In non-alcoholic beverages, the DMS (Dimethyl Sulphide) flavour occurs for several reasons – organic matter breakdown and decomposition and bacterial and yeast contamination.
Other Information
Beer Flavour Wheel Number: 0732
DMS (Dimethyl Sulphide) Flavour Level: 10-150 ug / l
Recommended flavour standard / sensory reference standard of: the American Society of Brewing
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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