The Role of Liquid Chromatography in the Brewing Industry
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Event Overview:
Chromatography is a key analytical technique in the food industry and enables quantification of major, minor, and trace concentrated food constituents in complex mixtures. In the brewing sector Hop bitter acids, phenols, anions, acids, and carbohydrates are typical substance classes that are of interest to the analyst. Quality control (QC) methods commonly rely on simple instrumentation, such as high-performance liquid chromatography with ultra-violet detection ( HPLC–UV,) and target a handful of key analytes. In contrast, methods employed in research can be very sophisticated and make use of the latest analytical equipment offered. This webinar reviews the LC methods currently used in brewing and highlights assays that are unique to this industry and discusses which LC assays currently used in research might add benefit to future brewing QC methods.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the importance of liquid chromatography (LC) as an analysis technique in the brewing industry.
- Find out about the liquid chromatography (LC) methods that are used in quality control (QC) laboratories to analyse beer.
- Find out about the innovative liquid chromatography (LC)) techniques used in research laboratories to analyse beer.
- Learn about the latest advanced LC techniques used to analyze beer.
Who Should Attend:
- LC analysts working in quality control in the food and beverage sector.
- LC analysts using LC as a research tool in the food and beverage sector.
- LC analysts interested in the role of advanced LC techniques in the food and beverage sector.
Speaker info:
Nils Rettberg
Head of Research
VLB Research Institute for Beer and Beverage Analysis (FIBGA) in Berlin
Nils Rettberg is a trained brewer holding a diploma in biotechnology, focusing on brewing science, and a PhD, focusing in bioanalytics from TU Berlin, Germany. After accumulating sufficient skills in brewing and drinking beer he has developed deep interest in analyzing molecules that make this beverage taste either terribly good or horribly stale. Nils is currently Head of Research at VLB Research Institute for Beer and Beverage Analysis (FIBGA) in Berlin.
FIBGA comprises a progressive contract laboratory that is accredited according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018 for beer and spirit analysis, as well a group of scientists dedicated to research in the field of beverage quality, analysis, and method development.