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Oxidised Flavour Standard For Sensory Training
The Oxidised Flavour Standard is a sensory reference tool for professionals and enthusiasts alike to identify off-flavours caused by oxidation in beer and other beverages. This product helps you train your sensory skills and improves your ability to recognise unwanted off-notes, such as flat, old, aged, grape-like, and sherry-like flavours, that occur when beer is exposed to oxygen.
The Oxidised Flavour Standard allows you to simulate and detect oxidation at specific stages. This enables tasters to train their sensory abilities and become more adept at identifying oxidation before it affects the product.
We ship globally – shipping costs may apply depending on your region
Minimum Order: £275
Sensory Terms
– Oxidised Beer
– Oxidised
– Flat
– Old
– Aged
– Grape like
– Sherry-like
Cause of Oxidised Flavour
Beer oxidation occurs when oxygen comes into contact with the beer during packaging, resulting in changes to its taste. The chemical reaction produces free radicals, which can either enhance certain stabilised flavours (from sulphur compounds) or degrade other flavours, resulting in distinct off-flavours. This process is most notable in freshly packaged lagers and different beers that have undergone oxidation within the initial weeks after packaging.
Why Choose FlavorActiV’s Oxidised Flavour Standard?
Accurate Simulation of Oxidation: This product simulates the exact oxidation profiles found in real-world scenarios, making it an essential training tool.
Proven Results: Trusted by professionals in the beverage industry, our products help improve tasting accuracy and consistency in detecting off-flavours.
Other Information
Please note: This FlavorActiV GMP Flavour Standard is proprietary –a superior product from a quality testing perspective, designed to represent an off-flavour type that can occur in beer at a specific oxidation profile. Other flavours within our range can fit older oxidation profiles, such as Papery and Catty.
FlavorActiV GMP Flavour Standards
Only Pharmaceutical Quality GMP Flavour Standards provide sufficient quality for professional sensory panels to train and validate with.
We produce encapsulated GMP (Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice) Flavour Standards that are safe to both smell and drink. The compounds within our capsules impart the aroma, taste and mouthfeel of a specific defect or positive flavour into a beverage for the purposes of taster training, calibration and quality control.
Our individual flavour GMP Flavour Standards are sold by flavour, each flavour pack contains 5 capsules, each separately blister packaged. Our sensory kits contain a mixture of flavours, each separately blister packaged, read the product description for flavour details.
We ship globally, and have over 20 years of experience at it. Our GMP Pharmaceutical Flavour Standards are produced to the highest standards, and as such, their shelf-life is strong and their quality consistent.
FlavorActiV’s flavour centre is the world’s only pharmaceutically run facility dedicated to the production of flavour reference standards. The Flavour Centre is a state-of-the-art facility housed within the campus of world-renowned Quay Pharma near Liverpool in the U.K.
The Flavour Centre was designed by FlavorActiV from the ground up at the direct request of global customers as they looked to move away from inferior food grade ‘certified flavour standards’ to GMP Pharma, a standard that ensures safe, stable, traceable, consistent and long shelf-life products.
All FlavorActiV’s industry-leading encapsulated flavour standards are manufactured following GMP at our Flavour Centre. All aspects of manufacture are overseen by Quay Pharma who are audited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory agency (MHRA). We also welcome customer audits.
Only FlavorActiV GMP flavour standard capsules bear our mark of authenticity.
We brand each of our capsules so that our customers know they’re getting the Pharmaceutical GMP Quality that only FlavorActiV provide.
Industry leading packaging and shelf-life
FlavorActiV flavour standards are blister packaged, which extends shelf-life and protects capsules from potential contamination. The average shelf-life of FlavorActiV flavour standards is 18 months to 4 years, depending on the flavour compounds.
We will never ship in pots or plastic packaging, here’s why…
Blister packaging protects capsules from the environment until they are ready for use. Blister packaging greatly reduces the amount of headspace for possible flavour escape. As each capsule individually blister packaged, making use of one capsule still leaves all others protected. FlavorActiV Flavour Standard packaging is 100% recyclable, as opposed to polypropylene which is not widely recycled.
Pots are semi-porous, they allow molecules to pass through and flavour to be lost, their significant headspace also adds to substantial flavour escape as a gas, even when using just one capsule all those remaining in the pot are exposed.
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