Plastics Beer Flavour Standard
Importance of Plastic Beer Flavour Standard
An off-flavour or taint in beer.
Origins of flavour
Produced by wild yeasts during fermentation. Plastics can occur as a taint via contaminated CO2 supplies or contaminated packaging materials.
Remarks
Recommended standard of ASBC and the EBC.
Associated terms
- Chemical
- Polystyrene
- Burning plastic
- Styrene
Analysis
- Gas Chromatography
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography
Typical concentration in beer
- Not detected in normal beer.
Approximate flavour threshold
- 20 µg/l
Beer flavour wheel number
- 0121
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