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Application of Instrumental Techniques in Brewing Chemistry – Past, Present, and Future

J. Amer. Soc. Brew. Chem. 41: 4-9, 1983

K.J. Siebert

This article gives an overview of chemical methods that have been applied to brewing, and they are compared in terms of the combination of selectivity and separation employed. In general, the evolution of brewing analyses has been to ever finer separation of compounds, and the range of concn. covered now spans almost 10 orders of magnitude, from dimethyl trisulphide at 0.01 µg/l to ethanol at 4%.

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