Taster Management
Every brewery is different and we understand that each of our customer’s needs are unique just like their beers. We don’t just offer a ‘one size fits all’ approach to taster management that won’t reflect how your operations or sensory panels should be run.
Our team of highly experienced Global Sensory Managers are able to build you a bespoke training program to suit your brewery and your tasting panel needs, no matter if you are the world’s largest brewery or the smallest micro brewery.
Why Taster Management?
A successful brewing company requires extensive knowledge about the different flavours and aromas in beers; what are the poistive and negative flavours, what causes them, and how to detect these flavours through tasting and smelling the beer.
To enhance quality control it is important to have an efficient taste panel, who can regularly taste to ensure that your final product meets both your company’s and your consumers’ requirements. Detecting unwanted flavours in your beer before it reaches the market can help you quickly source and resolve the problem before having to undertake any costly measures to amend the error.
Running a taste panel takes both time and effort, from the recruitment of tasters and training them to monitoring their performance. The correct management and training of a taste panel has a direct effect on your tasters’ performance.
Expert Taster Management
Here at FlavorActiV, we understand that beer producers don’t always have the skills and experience needed to manage a taste panel effectively. With this in mind, we have a team of multilingual Global sensory Managers who can provide the skills and tools necessary to manage tasters at any level, anywhere in the world. Whether they are from small independent panels or large corporate breweries we can help select, train and manage any tasting panel. Our Global Sensory Managers are here to assist the taste panel leaders and will offer them support and guidance to guarantee optimum results and manage your panels at a personal level ensuring you get the best performance from your taste panels and the best quality control possible.
The FlavorActiV team are available to travel to your brewery to deliver taster training in the local language, and once training is complete our team will be in regular contact to assess and evaluate your taste panel’s performance. They bring with them expert knowledge on how to get the best out your tasters, advice on how to run taste panels and produce better results from tasting. The experience our Global Sensory Managers have really can improve the quality of your product and help you avoid making costly mistakes.
To guarantee that you receive the most out of the taste panel, FlavorActiV offer Taster Management Packages that can be tailored made to suit your tasting panel requirements, supplying you with appropriate the flavour standards and providing on-site training with ever part of the package as one inclusive price. We have designed these packages to save you time and money on organising training and other resources for your panel.
Managing Tasters Further
Once you have a fully trained panel, like any skill, their tasting has to be constantly monitored and validated. Our Taster Validation Scheme provides you with clear objective measurements of your taster’s results as part of a proficiency testing service. Our Taster Validation Scheme only requires 30 minutes of your time once every two months, whereas having to train a new taste panel would take a lot more time and effort.
