Taste is held in the brewery’s tasting room from 10-11 twice a week. Results to a spreadsheet for later review. Using GoogleForms, which automatically sends Way of evaluating packaged beer for the week. Our beer on an informal basis throughout the process and taste is a formalized The brewers and packaging folks are evaluating We recently switched to a more independent pass/fail format on the above attributes from a longer survey, which provided more detailed information, but also took up more of everyone’s time. Flavor, overall impression, pass, pass.Įvery Wednesday and Friday I set up and run a sensory panel, or “taste” for short, at Zero Gravity. Mouthfeel full bodied, soft finish, no astringency, crisp pop of carbonation, pass. In this series of articles, Amy Todd, owner and operator of Zymurgy Labs, a third-party beer testing lab, who also works part-time in the lab at Zero Gravity Craft Brewery, gives us a detailed ground-floor view of the day-to-day lab routines that separate quality craft breweries from the pack.Īppearance, golden/orange hue, moderate haze, pass.

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