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Whiskey Open Proficiency Program (Single Round)
Enhance and validate your sensory skills with FlavorActiV’s Whisky Open Proficiency Program. Designed for distillers, blenders, and quality teams, this open scheme provides regular blind assessments using GMP Flavour Standards to benchmark performance, support training, and ensure consistency in whisky sensory evaluation. By enrolling in our single-round proficiency program, you’ll have the opportunity to trial our TVS platform and gain valuable insights into your current sensory ability, helping you improve your tasting precision.
We ship globally – shipping costs may apply depending on your region
Minimum Order: £275
The Whiskey Open Proficiency Program is designed to train, enhance and maintain your whisky sensory abilities.
| Single Round | Annual Program | |
| No of Rounds | 1 | 4 |
| Cost per round | £350 | £288.75 |
| TVS Access | Limited | Full |
| Certification | No | Yes |
| Proficiency Test | In/Out | In/Out |
| Subscription | Pay as you go | Annual subscription |
Round 1 only – shipped on order confirmation
Some of the benefits of joining The Whisky Open Proficiency Program are:
– Reduce the risk of undesirable product release
– Sensory feedback from across the whole organisation or distillery
– Reduced specialised sensory training costs for panellists
– Learn strengths and weaknesses to hone skills accordingly
– Encourages staff retention and attracts new talent
– Improves product awareness
Proficiency is the next step after you’re trained to recognise the 14 flavours included in the scheme (available to purchase from our online store). As well as the Control sample, the program also features the following flavours:
– Buttery (Diacetyl)
– Butyric
– Cereal/Malty (Malty-biscuity)
– Coconut (Whisky Lactone)
– Floral (Geraniol)
– Fruity/Estery (Isoamyl acetate)
– Green/Grassy (Acetaldehyde)
– Musty
– Medicinal
– Smoky
– Spicy
– Vanilla
– Sulphury/Rotten Vegetable
– Sulphury/Rubbery (Leathery)
How the Whisky Open Proficiency Program Works:
Upon ordering, you will receive a calibration pack for the proficiency program, which will be shipped to you after your order is confirmed. The single round testing involves an IN/OUT scheme, designed to test your ability to identify defects outside of the product quality specification.
Once you’ve completed the tasting, log your results on our Whisky Open Proficiency Program platform. This allows you to track and improve your sensory abilities over time.
The Whisky Open Proficiency Program engine is mobile-friendly, enabling access from anywhere in the world. However, certification is only available for annual subscription members.
Why Choose the Whisky Open Proficiency Program?
This program allows whisky enthusiasts and professionals to enhance their sensory skills while deepening their understanding of whisky. Whether you are looking to improve product quality, develop your sensory expertise, or simply expand your whisky tasting experience, the Whisky Open Proficiency Program is designed to help you reach your goals.
Take the First Step Toward Becoming a Whisky Expert:
Order your Whisky Open Proficiency Program today and start your journey toward mastering whisky sensory evaluation.
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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