Beer
Integrity issues
There are three main types of beer integrity issues:
- non-compliance with the regulatory reference standards (e.g. alcohol content) or client specifications (e.g. acidity).
- unpermitted addition of undeclared compounds, such as flavours, dyes, sweeteners and/or preservatives
- mislabelling with false declaration of botanical origin and/or beer category
Potential threat to public health
Undeclared additives or their impurities may create a health risk
To preserve beer reputation and consumer health, monitor their integrity through analytical testing
Our expertise
Eurofins companies support the Beer sector, with the commitment to better serve you and to reply to all your issues with our very wide portfolio of testing.
Our offer is also applicable to "new" products such as alcopops and hard selzers.
Eurofins Network Offer
| Testing requests | Methods |
|---|---|
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Botanical origin control |
Stable Isotopes testing (SNIF-NMR and IRMS) |
| Detection of sugar addition |
Stable Isotopes testing (IRMS) |
|
Origin of CO2 |
Stable Isotopes testing (IRMS) |
|
Alcohol content |
Steam distillation + densimetry |
|
Dry extracts (initial, real, appearent) |
Calculation from alcohol & density |
| Sugar profile |
Ion Chromatography |
| CO2 Pressure & concentration |
Manometry |
| Acidity, pH |
Titration |
| Headspace volume, Bitterness, Colour EBC, Turbidity |
Spectrophotometry |
| SO2 |
Colorimetry |
| Preservatives (benzoic & sorbic acids, Parabens) | HPLC |
| Sweeteners, colorings | Liquid Chromatography coupled with Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) |
| Flavours | Gas Chromatography coupled with Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) |
