Rapid determination of bitterness in beer using fluorescence spectroscopy and chemometrics

Journal of the Institute of Brewing

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-10

  Christensen, Jakob ^a   Ladefoged, Anne Marie ^b   Nørgaard, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Aria Foods Rødkærsbro   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bitterness; Chemometrics; Europium; Fluorescence spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; EUROPIUM; EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BITTERNESS; CHEMOMETRICS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES (PLS) REGRESSION;

BREWERIES;

EID: 19944371749     PISSN: 00469750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2050-0416.2005.tb00642.x     Document Type: Article

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