Name: sodium bicarbonate
SKU: B-BE-144-55-8
Price: 40.98 EUR
Availability: InStock

Product Description

“Alkaline, like caustic or detergent”

Beer flavour standard used to train professional beer tasters to recognize and scale the intensity of alkaline character.

Alkaline notes result from accidental contamination of beer with caustic cleaning agents. Detection of such flavours is essential to protect against the risk of releasing contaminated beer to the market.

Food grade | Free from sensory impurities | Extensively tested | Safe to smell and taste.

IMPORTANCE

Alkaline flavour is a taint in beer. Increases in beer pH value affect beer flavour indirectly, altering the flavour activity of many acidic and basic flavour compounds, giving rise to ‘bready’ and ‘sweet’ flavour notes.

ORIGINS

Alkaline flavours usually originate from accidental contamination of beer with caustic cleaning agents. Such incidents are often associated with an increase in beer colour and sodium ion concentrations in addition to an undesirable flavour change.

HOW TO TASTE

The best way to assess alkaline flavours in beer is as follows. Take a little beer into your mouth. Move it around with your tongue for a few seconds then swallow it.

CAS NUMBER

The CAS registry number of sodium bicarbonate is 144-55-8.

Additional Information

Weight	0,05 kg
Dimensions	,7 × ,7 × ,3 cm
process	processing
flavour	chemical, taint
chemical	inorganics
capsules per pot	6 capsules
kit format	full pots of capsules
sector	beer