Presenter: Jens Voigt, University Trier, Trier, Germany
Coauthors: Andreas Richter and Thomas Kraus-Weyermann,
Weyermann Specialty Malts, Bamberg, Germany
The development of the Malt-Aroma-Wheel allows new
approaches for generating new beer styles and recipes. The
definition of a malt mixture of various specialty malts and
consideration of the original gravity lead to a calculated
projection of the expected aroma profile and the color of the
resulting beer. The basis is the Malt-Aroma-Wheel, which was
recently developed for a wide range of different malts. The
projected beer profiles are compared with tasting results. This
indicates the intensities of characteristic aroma components of
the original malts and how much of those are found in the final
beer. This tool is a big help for the development of new beer
types and variation of existing beer styles.
Jens Voigt received a Dipl.-Eng. (M.S.) degree in brewing
and beverage technology from TU München-Weihenstephan,
Germany, in 1985. He started his career with A. Steinecker
GmbH, Freising, Germany, as a technical engineer in
brewhouse, fermentation, and filtration equipment. He held
sales, product, and management positions with Steinecker
until 1995. From 1988 until 1992 he worked on his doctorate
in brewing technology on beer foam from Weihenstephan
(Prof. Narziss). In 1996 he joined Doemens Brewing School
in Munich, Germany, as managing director. In late 1997 he
joined Heinrich Huppmann GmbH, Kitzingen, Germany, as key
account manager for brewery equipment and was managing
director of brewmaxx, a supplier of software solutions for
the brewing industry. From 2004 to 2012 he was a research
associate with Prof. Karl Sommer (mechanical engineering
and process technology) at WZW (Wissenschaftszentrum
Weihenstephan [Center of Life Science, Technische Universität
München-Weihenstephan]), working on brewing and beverage
process technology issues. In 2012 he joined the University of
Applied Sciences, Trier, as a professor in beverage technology.
He is member of MBAA and IBD, a member of the editorial
board in the Journal of the Institute of Brewing, and honorary
associate professor of the University of Nottingham, U.K.
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