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Quality Labs for Small Brewers: Building a Foundation for Great Beer

Autor Merritt Waldron
en Paperback – 6 iun 2020
Essential reading for every brewer who knows quality comes first. Empower your staff to directly influence the consistent production of safe, wholesome beer by building a culture of quality within your brewery. Discover how to establish control points and protocols, take corrective action, and analyze data to always be continuously improving.
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ISBN-13: 9781938469633
ISBN-10: 1938469631
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: TRADE SELECT

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Cuprins

Table of Contents


Introduction

About the book

What I assume about the reader

What's this Quality Control Thing About Anyway?

Quality Control

Quality Assurance

Quality System

The Structure

Part I ¿ Building a Solid Foundation

Chapter 1 ¿ Food Safety Modernization Act

Introduction

Food Safety Terms

What FSMA Means for Craft Brewers

What if My Facility is a Brewpub?

How Do I comply?

Chapter 2 - Good Manufacturing Practices

What are Good Manufacturing Practices?

GMPs vs. SSOPs

Familiarize Ourselves with GMP Requirements

Personnel

Plants and Grounds

Sanitary Operations

Sanitary Facilities and Controls

Equipment and Utensils

Warehousing and Distribution

Holding and Distribution of Human Food By-Products

Defect Action Limits

Culture of Food Safety and Quality First

Writing a GMP Manual

Next Steps, Auditing

Chapter 3 ¿ Food Safety Program

Common Food Safety Hazards Around the Brewery

Physical Hazards

Chemical Hazards

Biological Hazards

Control Points and General Control Methods

Assemble Your GMP/Food Safety Team

Put it in Writing

Monitoring Principles

Critical Control Limits

Recall Planning

General notes About Your Recall

Recall Plan in Seven Steps

Things to Add to Your Food Safety Program

Chapter 4 ¿ Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Writing an SOP

Supporting Components

Using a Template

Implementation, Training, and Upkeep

Chapter 5 - Cleaning and Sanitation

Cleaning

Sanitation

Application Variables

Part II ¿ Starting Your Quality Program

Chapter 6 ¿ Starting Your Quality Program

Planning Your Program

Safety

Identifying Quality Control Points

Sampling Plan

Pulling it all Together

Chapter 7 - Writing a Quality Manual

Quality Policy

Quality Governance and Management

Standard Procedures

Specifications of Finished Products

Consumer and In-house Complaints

Corrective Action Plan

Master Sanitation Schedule

Good Laboratory Practices

Calibration Plan

Conclusion

Part III - Measurement

Chapter 8 - Weight, Volume, Concentration, and Dilution Equations

Basic Volume Calculations

Area

Volume

Volume and Temperature Relationship

Volume, Density, and Weight

Problem Solving by Dimensional Analysis and Unit Conversions

Making a Standard Solution

Serial Dilution

Mixing Equation

Scaling

Chapter 9 ¿ Density

Specific Gravity and Plato

Where to measure

Sampling Plan

Troubleshooting

Chapter 10 ¿ Temperature

Temperature Scales

How to Measure

Where to Measure

Sampling Plan

Troubleshooting

Chapter 11 ¿ pH

pH: A Closer Look

Hydrogen Ion Sources

Buffers

How to Measure

Where to Measure

Sampling Plan

Troubleshooting

Chapter 12 ¿ Yeast

Yeast Management

How to Measure

Microscope Basics

Getting to Know Your Hemocytometer

Viability & Methylene Blue

Limitations and Counting Rules

Serial Dilution

ASBC Yeast-3

Craft Brewers Quick Method

Pitch Rate

Where to Measure

Sampling Plan

Troubleshooting

Chapter 13 ¿ Sensory

What is Sensory Analysis

Sensory Program

What We Measure

Practice

Developing Brand Recognition ¿ True to Brand

Getting Formal

Data Collection Forms

Data Collection

Flavor Standards/Off-Flavors

Goal Setting

Conclusion

Chapter 14 ¿ Microbiology

Concerns of Brewers

Ingredients

Environment

Sterilization

Aseptic Technique

Traditional Plating Culture

Choosing the Right Media

Building Confidence in Your Results

Plating Methods

I Have Growth on My Plates! What's Next?

Yeast Identification

Bacteria Identification

Document Results

Next Steps

Advanced Methods

Bringing PCR Into Your Brewery

Chapter 15 - Packaging Quality

Receiving Packaging Materials

Fill Height

Closures

Can Seam Measurements

How to Measure Can Seams

Sampling Plan

Bottle Seals

Secondary Tests

Date Coding

Container Lot Tracking

Labeling

Chapter 16 - Carbon Dioxide

Henery's Law

Units

Where it is Measured

How is it Measured

Where to Measure

Troubleshooting

Chapter 17 - Dissolved Oxygen

Where to Measure

Sampling Plan

Troubleshooting

Chapter 18 - Alcohol

How to Measure

Where to Measure

Sampling Plan

Troubleshooting

Chapter 19 ¿ Titrations

Preparing for a Titration

Titration of a Strong Acid with a Strong Base

How to Measure

Where to Measure

Troubleshooting

What is it used for?

Chapter 20 ¿ Spectrophotometry

Principles of Measurement

How to Measure

Where to Measure

Chapter 21 ¿ Turbidity

Units

How to Measure

Where to Measure

Part IV ¿ Getting To Work

What Every Brewery Should Measure and Document

Chapter 22 ¿ Setting Up Your Brewery Lab

One Goal, Different Approaches

The Retro Fit Approach

The Collector Approach

The Build Out Approach

Budgeting

Lab Safety

Chapter 23 ¿ Introduction to Analysis

Variables

Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycle

Conclusion

Chapter 24 ¿ Data Collection

Accuracy and Precision

Sources of Error

Mean, Normal Distribution, and Standard Deviation

Normal Distribution of Data

Chapter 25 ¿ Data Organization and Analysis

Developing Brew Logs

Analyze Your Data

Getting Data on the Spreadsheet

Charting Best Practices

Moving Range Chart

Chapter 26 ¿ Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycle

PDSA Example Case Study

Setting Product Specifications

Chapter 27 - Continuous Improvement

Where do I Start?

Continuous Improvement in Your Future

Chapter 28 ¿ Conclusion

Final Words of Advice

Appendix A ¿ Basic Good Manufacturing Process Example

Appendix B ¿ GMP Audit Checklists

Appendix C ¿ Food Safety Plan Templates

Appendix D ¿ Recall Planning and Procedure

Appendix E ¿ How to Write an SOP

Appendix F ¿ SOP Example ¿ Equalibriated Package Dissolved Oxygen Samples

Appendix G ¿ How to Use a Hydrometer

Appendix H ¿ ASBC pH Fishbone XXb

Appendix I ¿ SOP Forward Pipetting Technique

Appendix J - SOP_Forward_Pipetting_Technique