Beer flavour standards kit used to train professional beer tasters to recognize and scale the intensity of 12 essential beer flavour notes.

Kit contains pots of each of the following:

• “Acetaldehyde, like emulsion paint or green apples”
• “Malty-biscuity, like pale barley malt or malt dust”
• “Diacetyl, like butter, or butter popcorn”
• “DMS, like sweetcorn or tomato sauce”
• “Ethyl acetate, like nail varnish remover”
• “Ethyl hexanoate, like apple or aniseed”
• “Metallic, like ink or blood”
• “Hop oil, like hoppy ale”
• “Isoamyl acetate, like bananas or pear drops”
• “Mercaptan, like drains or rotting garbage”
• “Lightstruck, like a skunk or freshly-brewed coffee”
• “Phenolic-4-VG, like cloves or carnations”