Comprehensive Sensory Kit
Develop and hone your beer sensory expertise.
A comprehensive Flavor Sensory Training Kit designed by the Siebel Institute of Technology and Lallemand Brewing.
While breweries with established tasting panel structures will find this kit extremely valuable, it can also be used for “taster calibration” by brewers’ guilds, homebrew groups and beer judges.
Benefits
Key Product Features
- 25 vials of the most important flavors and aromas found in beer
- Each vial allows for spiking up to 1 liter of beer
- Perfect for established tasting panels and taste calibration for brewers, homebrew groups and beer judges alike
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The full collection of aromas includes:
Acetaldehyde – – green apple, cut grass
Acetic acid – – vinegar-like
Almond – – marzipan, almonds
Bitter – – hoppy, bitter
Butyric acid – – putrid, baby vomit
Caprylic acid – – soapy, fatty, candle wax
Contamination – – sour and buttery
D.M.S. – – cooked corn, cooked vegetables
Diacetyl – – butter, butterscotch
Earthy – – geosmin, soil-like
Ethyl acetate – – solvent-like, nail polish remover
Ethyl hexanoate – – aniseed, apple, or licorice
Geraniol – – floral, geranium flowers
Grainy – – husk-like, nut-like
Hefeweizen – – spicy and banana
Indole – – farm, barnyard
Isoamyl acetate – – banana, pear drop
Isovaleric acid – – cheesy, old hops, sweaty socks
Lactic acid – – sour, sour milk
Light Struck – – skunky, toffee or coffee-like
Mercaptan – – sewer-like, drains
Metallic – – metal, tin-like, blood
Papery – – cardboard, oxidized
Spicy – – cloves, allspice
Vanilla – – custard powder, vanilla essence
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The Craft Sensory Kit is composed the 12 flavor compounds found in many unique styles of craft beer. Each vial allows for spiking 1 liter of beer.
The Regular Sensory Kit offers a pre-selected mix of 12 of the most common flavors and aromatics found in beer. Each vial allows for spiking 1 liter of beer.
The Intermediate Off-Flavor Kit offers a total of 12 compounds that cover a variety of spoilage-related flavors as well as artifacts from other sources. Each vial allows for spiking 1 liter of beer.
The Specialty Sensory Training Kit is composed of 24 vials of a single flavor, with each vial allowing for the spiking of 1 liter of beer.
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