Introduction
Beer flavor lives or dies on a handful of volatile compounds, and telling apart the ones that build a good aroma from the ones that signal a defect takes a method that can do both at once. This application note shows how PerkinElmer's HS-GC-FID system, built around the GC2400 and HS2400M headspace sampler, quantifies 15 flavor and off flavor compounds directly from commercial beer samples in a single validated run. It covers everything a QA/QC or R&D lab needs to put the method into practice: calibration, LOD/LOQ, precision, recovery, and real sample data from five commercial beers.