DETERMINATION OF HOT-WATER EXTRACT

The Analysis Committee of the European Brewery Convention has recommended that the Hot Water Extract procedure for malt, which relies on a coarse grind and single temperature mash (65-degrees-C), is included in Analytica-EBC, as an additional method to that of the EBC Extract procedure. The Committee accepted the precision values obtained by the Institute of Brewing on the 1984 Check Malt. Repeatability (r95) and reproducibility (R95) values in litre degrees/kg were 2.14 and 3.48 respectively, for a mean value of 295.3 at a Miag 0.7 mm setting, and 1.43 and 2.90 respectively, for a mean value of 298.2 at a Miag 0.2 mm setting.