Publications by authors named "Natasa Kocar Mlinaric"

Research Background: The production of lager beer includes successive repitchings of a single starter culture. During the beer production process, the yeast is exposed to several stress factors which could affect the fermentation performance. An incomplete fermentation represents a waste of fermentable extract and leads to a beer with higher carbohydrate levels, which could result in a beer with an atypical flavour profile.

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Background: Although the evaluation of beer is conducted by sensory experts, we cannot neglect the influence of human factors and subjectivity. This problem could be solved by the chemical analysis of the volatile part of beer aroma and, from this, we can build a database for the construction of a model that classifies samples in a comparable manner to sensory assessment.

Results: Twenty-two batches of the same beer brand were assessed by sensory evaluation and described chemically in terms of the contents of alcohols and esters (n = 9), hop essential oil compounds (n = 15) using gas chromatography (GC) and other aroma volatiles (n = 33) as analysed by head space solid-phase microextraction (SPME)-GC/mass spectrometry.

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