Quality in Beer with Dr Charlie Bamforth – BeerSmith Podcast #184

by Brad Smith on December 20, 2018 · 2 comments

Dr Charles Bamforth joins me to discuss ensuring quality in beer and how it applies to both professional and home brewing. We also explore aspects of quality in beer.

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Topics in This Week’s Episode (49:52)

  • Today my guest is Dr Charles Bamforth.  Dr Bamforth is a Professor of Malting and Brewing Sciences at the University of California at Davis.  He specializes in beer perception, polyphenols, foam stability, oxidation and flavor stability in beer.
  • We start with a discussion of Dr Bamforth’s pending retirement, though he plans to continue writing about beer and soccer.
  • Charlie defines quality and what it means in beer, as well as the difference between quality assurance and quality control.
  • We talk about the basic components of a quality assurance program.
  • We discuss how quality goes well beyond just monitoring the brewing process, but actually includes the ingredients back to their source as well as the product packaging, delivery and storage.
  • We discuss the cost of quality and how to balance that.
  • He explains some of the common measurements taken to control quality including the critical sensory analysis.
  • We discuss how quality applies to the average homebrewer.
  • Charlie explains some of the details involved in the control process.
  • We mention some of Dr Bamforth’s recent books as well as his closing thoughts on quality.

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Thanks to Dr Charles Bamforth for appearing on the show and also to you for listening!
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William Marytn December 21, 2018 at 2:03 am

Nice blog. I read your post, it’s very effective. I see your video. you can briefly explain about how can check quality beer.thanks for sharing this kind of information.

Texas Brewing Inc. January 18, 2019 at 4:49 am

Wow!!! Excellent blog & video. I really appreciate your way of conveying information regarding beer. Thanks for sharing it..Please keep it up.

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