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Helping you serve quality, consistency and flavor
As a brewer, you use both art and science to serve your customers safe, fresh beers with great character. Your business depends on quality, consistency, and flavor – which requires precision, efficiency and expertise.
Thermo Scientific offers an unmatched combination of durable equipment, purchasing convenience and solid end-to-end customer service to help brewers of all sizes deliver their best beers.
Sign up for the email “Beer Tour” to learn more about the products and support we can offer your brewery and get a free poster to hang in your testing lab.
Spend time in our 3D interactive Beer Lab and review the various quality and testing workflows for beer available from Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Accurate testing is the key to good beer
Quality brews start and finish with precision. It means testing the chemical composition at each step of the beer making process, helping ensure you create the quality and consistent beer your customers crave. Click on a card below to explore more.
Download the complete infographic, Science behind great tasting brews ›
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Featured Article: Clearing Beer Haze with Advanced Turbidity Testing Technologies
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Steve Guay explores the use of turbidity meters and other analytical instruments in helping to create newer more sophisticated craft brews. The article emphasizes the need for a turbidity meter in various stages of the brewing workflow and discusses the increased quality that can be achieved when using a meter.
Infographic: Packaging safe, delicious beer
Explore how chemical and microbial analysis of your beer can help prevent contamination in packaged beer. Analysis of pH, alkalinity, oxygen, bitterness, color, turbidity and microbes are described.
Find out more by downloading the infographic: Preventing contamination in packaged beer ›
pH and beermaking
Explore the various ways that monitoring pH influences beermaking, including how it impacts the quality and flavor, and when it should be monitored to help ensure a top quality brew.
Testing tools for your best brews
For over 60 years, we have partnered with food and beverage industry leaders, including breweries to help make complex quality measurements routine.
Sign up for this email course, to learn how testing your beer at crucial steps along your workflow will help you craft your best brews.
During the beer tour, you'll learn how our equipment can be used to monitor and balance your brew through the chemical reactions that occur in various phases of brewing.
Each email will cover a different topic, they are:
1. Achieving consistency in your incoming water quality
2. Balancing your brew before and during fermentation
3. Analyzing your brew prior to packaging
4. Monitoring and treatment of wastewater
Art + Science = Quality Beer
Crafting formulas that keep customers coming back
Quality, consistent brews are crafted in the lab
The right lab product at the right step in your workflow can make all the difference in creating high quality, consistent beers for your customers. Find the right products for the job below.
We’re here for you—before, during, and after your purchase
All Orion and Orion Star instruments come with a two-year minimum warranty, a technical support team ready to help you troubleshoot any potential issues, and service team available for product calibrations and repairs. We can’t wait to partner with your brewery to help you achieve your quality, consistency, and flavor goals through precision, efficiency, and expertise.
Featured products for your brewery
Test key elements of your incoming water to ensure that the flavor profile of your incoming water is consistent with each brew with the below products.
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Keep your beer in balance during malting, mashing, lautering, and fermentation with the below products.
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Analyze your beer for bitterness, turbidity and microbiologicals to ensure optimal flavor and clarity.
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Frequent analysis of biochemical and chemical oxygen demand (BOD and COD), turbidity, and pH in your wastewater can ensure your brewery stays complaint.
Precision Low Temperature BOD Refrigerated Incubator |
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Orion Star A216 pH/RDO Benchtop Meter to ensure pH levels are within regulatory limits |
Let us help you find the right supplies to help ensure consistent quality and taste
Explore our beer brochure which may help you select the right product for each stage of the brewing workflow: from incoming water treatment and monitoring, beer production, quality control and packaging, to outgoing water treatment, Thermo Scientific laboratory supplies are available to help you create the perfect tasting brew each and every time.
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Add any of our top-selling lab equipment for breweries to your cart here. To view complete product specifications and more options, click on the product name in the table below. If you’d prefer to speak with a product specialist, select the Contact Us button below and we’ll be happy to answer any questions.
Ready to take your testing to the next level?
Request a demo of Thermo Scientific beer testing products. Visit the water analysis instruments and water purification demo request site for more information.
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