Four new EBC Methods available

New methods | On 1 July 2021, the European Brewery Convention (EBC) and the American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC) published two international methods on Free Amino Nitrogen and β-glucans measurement in wort by automated discrete analysis and two new International Methods in microbiology developed over the past three years by experts on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Update on EBC methods related to craft beer

Technical support | When compared to regular hop addition during wort boiling, late and especially dry hopping make the composition of beer more complex and diverse, which requires additional analytical methods. For this purpose, two new methods are now recommended by the European Brewery Convention (EBC). At the same time, the precision values given for BU (Bitterness Units) measurement have been updated. They now cover also higher ranges as typical to dry-hopped beer.

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New and updated EBC Methods

Analytical methods | At the end of November 2020, the European Brewery Convention (EBC) and the American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC) have released a new International Method. A successful international collaborative trial organized in 2018 and 2019 involving 17 laboratories throughout the world led to the creation of this new method on the determination of bitter compounds in dry-hopped beers.

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EBC Symposium 2021: Call for abstracts now open

Brewing it Differently | The EBC Symposium, originally scheduled for this year, has been postponed to 18-20 April 2021. The call for abstracts is now open and available on the EBC Symposium website. Only abstracts submitted via the abstract submission tool will be considered. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Sunday, 17 January 2021.

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20. Standard-Malz erhältlich

EBC | Das 20. EBC-Standard-Malz wurde durch das Analysekomitee der European Brewery Convention zugelassen. Das Malz kann zur Überprüfung der Ergebnisse von in Analytica-EBC beschriebenen Testmethoden oder zur Kalibrierung von Geräten (z. B. Friabilimeter) oder anderen Methoden (Flussinjektion, Reflexion im nahen Infrarot usw.) verwendet werden.