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   Analytical Chemistry of Beer and Brewing   
      
   What can analytical chemistry reveal about the beer and brewing   
   industries?   
      
   Even though there are only four ingredients in beer - grain, hops,   
   yeast, and water - the variation in beer styles and flavors is   
   staggering. The key to understanding this variation, and ensuring a   
   beer product that is consistent time after time, is analytical   
   measurement.   
      
   In the distant past, this was done through taste, smell, flavor, and   
   visual analysis rather than instrumentation. In modern times, however,   
   analytical instrumentation plays an increasingly important role in the   
   brewing process.   
      
   A lot of chemists are home brewers and the level of the craft has been   
   growing steadily over the past 20 years or so.   
      
   Pittcon is always open to measurement science and new symposia of   
   emerging interests, so Bruce Hamper and I thought, "Let's propose a   
   session on beer and brewing to bring this community together and focus   
   on some of the new things that have coming out of this area."   
      
   Bruce is a professor at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and he   
   teaches a course on beer and brewing. We had a very successful   
   symposium on beer at Pittcon 2020 in Chicago, complete with a nice   
   beer tasting event.   
      
      
      
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