Molasses Flavour Standard
Refine your sensory evaluation skills with FlavorActiV’s Molasses Flavour Standard, a high-quality GMP-certified reference used globally by beverage professionals and sensory panels. This flavour standard captures the signature characteristics of molasses—rich caramel, burnt sugar, and earthy sweetness, offering a reliable benchmark for taste and aroma recognition across multiple beverage categories.
Each pack contains five individually blister-packaged capsules, ensuring long shelf life and consistency for repeated training sessions. Trusted by breweries, distilleries, coffee producers, and soft drink brands worldwide, this standard is essential for improving panel accuracy and product quality.
We ship globally – shipping costs may apply depending on your region
Minimum Order: £275
What Causes Molasses Flavours in Beverages?
Molasses-like flavours in beverages can result from:
– Maillard reactions and caramelisation during malt roasting or thermal processing
– Use of dark sugars or molasses as ingredients
– Barrel ageing, contributing charred wood and burnt sugar notes.
– Specific yeast fermentation by-products
– Over-roasting or oxidation, which can introduce unintended burnt or bitter notes
This flavour is commonly found in dark beers, spirits (especially rum), coffee, and some aged soft drinks.
How do molasses flavour standards improve sensory training?
Molasses flavour standards help improve sensory training by providing a consistent, high-quality reference for identifying caramelised and burnt sugar notes. They train panellists to recognise and describe the flavour accurately across different beverage types. This enhances sensory memory, sharpens detection skills, and ensures a unified vocabulary within tasting teams. The standards also support quality control by highlighting off-flavours or process inconsistencies. Overall, they boost confidence and precision in professional sensory evaluations.
Product Details
Pack Size: 5 capsules
Price: £75.00 GBP
Minimum Order Value: £275
Shipping: Global delivery available
Equip your sensory panel with the expertise to recognise and calibrate molasses flavours—an essential component of quality assurance and product development.
Order the Molasses Flavour Standard now.
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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