The method is suitable for the determination of water vapor volatile aroma compounds in beer.
Volatile aroma compounds are driven out of the sample through steam distillation. The ethanolic distillate is saturated with NaCl. Potassium hydrogen sulfite is added to separate carbonyl groups that might interfere with the analysis. The extraction of the aroma compounds is performed by shaking out with dichloromethane and the phases separated by centrifuging.
The method is suitable for beer brewed to any original gravity or to any alcohol content.
Volatile compounds in beer are concentrated through distillation and extracted with dichloromethane. The solvent phase is analyzed with a gas chromatograph. The linearity of the detector and the determination of the concentrations of analytes in the sample are achieved by using multiple concentration levels within the relevant range and through evaluation of the relative area under the peaks.
Determination of organic acids by means of reversed phase chromatography/ion chromatography
This method is suitable for wine, fruit juice and other non-alcoholic beverages.
The organic acids are separated using two combined columns, reversed-phase HPLC and an ion exchange column and are then determined using a UV detector.
Determination of the total acidity through titration
This method is used to determine the total titratable acids in beverages and concentrates.
Titratable acidity represents the sum of the free acids present in a beverage, with the exception of the dissolved carbon dioxide (carbonic acid). In fruit juices and the beverages prepared from them, they usually consist of malic acid, citric acid and tartaric acid.
The titration of the degassed beverage sample (freed from carbonic acid) is carried out potentiometrically using 0.25 mol/l sodium hydroxide solution either to a pH of 7.0 calculated as tartaric acid or to a pH of 8.1 calculated as citric acid.
The method describes how to determine the iso-α-acids, α-acids and β-acids in hop extracts and isomerized extracts by means of high-pressure liquid chromatography.
Hop extract and isomerized hop extract intended for use in beer brewing or elsewhere in the food industry
Hop extracts and isomerized hop extracts are dissolved in methanol. The iso-α-acids, α-acids and β-acids are separated using hig-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) with gradient elution and measured spectrophotometrically at a wavelength of 270 nm (iso-α-acids) and 314 nm (α-acids and β-acids).
Simultaneous determination of iso-a-acids and reduced iso-a-acids (rho, tetra, hexa) in beer and beer-based beverages using HPLC
This method is not suitable for beer and beer-based beverages containing a mix of hexa- and iso-products (co-elution).
This method separates iso-α-acids and reduced iso-α-acids (rho, tetra, hexa) chromatographically [2].
The separated compounds are detected spectrophotometrically at 270 nm. Quantification is performed using International Calibration Standards (ICS).
These standards do not contain all of the isomers of a certain type of iso-α-acids. Currently, ICS-I (DCHA-Iso) contains only the trans-isomeric complexes with dicyclohexylamine (DCHA). ICS-R (DCHA-rho) only has the cis-isomers in a complex with DCHA. ICS-T (tetra) comprises both cis- and trans-isomer complexes with DCHA, and ICS-H (DCHA-hexa) includes only cis-isomers with DCHA.
Commercially available hop products contain a greater number of isomers than the standards.
Thus, there are more peaks in the chromatogram than in the corresponding international calibration standards, in particular, with the cis-iso-cohumulone as well as the cis-iso-n-humulone and cis-iso-ad-humulone. The application of this method to these kinds of beers should be conducted with this in mind, since it is not entirely known whether these additional peaks are actually isomers of iso-α-acids.