Achieving Beer Excellence: Essential Guidelines for Brewers w/Simone Bellassai (CDR BeerLab)
Achieving beer excellence involves understanding the complex interplay of ingredients and processes. Modern breweries range from small craft setups to large industrial operations, each facing several challenges in maintaining quality. Key factors include the conversion of starch to fermentable sugars during mashing, yeast metabolism, and wort composition. Monitoring parameters like nitrogen levels, SO2, and pH is vital for fermentation efficiency and beer stability. Colloidal stability and water quality also play crucial roles, affecting flavour and consistency. Brewers often use density measurements, but detailed analyses of fermentable sugars and other components provide more accurate insights. This speech will introduce CDR BeerLab®, an analytical system, that offers an efficient solution, combining ease of use with real-time, reliable results, supporting both small and large breweries in establishing a robust in-house quality control system. CDR BeerLab® uses pre-calibrated reagents, minimizing errors and streamlining operations. By offering rapid, precise analyses, CDR BeerLab® helps brewers maintain high standards and optimize their production processes, ensuring consistent quality across various beer styles. At the end of the presentation there will be, switching to a moving camera, a practical demonstration of the system.
Simoni Bellassai graduated in 2009 in Chemistry with honors at the University of Florence in Italy, for which he has worked one year as research fellow in the Electrochemical department. At the end of 2009, Simone joined the R&D department of CDR srl, company that develops and produces several analysis systems for the QC of the Food&Beverage. Since 2016, Simone has been working as CDR FoodLab® division manager at CDR where he grew a wide experience in the chemical analysis. In 2016, he graduated with honors in Enology and Viticulture at the University of Florence. In 2018 he published on the magazine Wines&Vines the article “Winemaking in the Era of Climate Change Determine yeast-assimilable nitrogen and gluconic acid for optimum alcoholic fermentation management”.
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