pH & TA in Sour Beers
Add just the right amount of pucker to your sour beers, get your pH and TA right!
Using the Backpack Lab™ Water Quality Test Kit in Education
pH, conductivity, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, phosphate, acidity, alkalinity, carbon dioxide, hardness, and nitrate are important for monitoring water quality. The Water Quality Backpack Lab contained all of the tests kits and instrumentation required to test ten of the most important water quality parameters.
Picking Decisions Based on Analysis: A Winemaker’s Review
For any wine manufacturer who tries to minimise interventions into the natural winemaking process, when no chemicals can be added to adjust the wine – the taste and quality of the finished product highly depend on grape characteristics which change dramatically with the picking date. Irina Santiago-Brown from Inkwell Wines explains how making a right picking decision is…
8 Tips to Prepare Your Wine Lab for Vintage
The vintage season is coming. We realise that this is the busiest and most critical period of the year for winemakers. Here are our recommendations to prepare your wine lab. 1. Restock calibration buffers pH electrodes should be calibrated before use. Periodic calibration, if not daily, should be performed frequently to obtain a high accuracy…
Salt and Acidity of Pickle Brine
Pickling dates back to 2000 BC to Mesopotamia, where cucumbers from India were pickled in the Tigris Valley. Pickling is a means of preserving food in a brine solution, typically comprised of vinegar, salt, seasonings. These acidic, salty liquids are resistant to microbial growth, which preserves the flavour and quality of fresh foods immersed in…
Using the Backpack Lab™ Marine Science Test Kit in Education
Oceans are some of the most important natural resources in Australia providing commercial, environmental, and intrinsic values. Oceans provide 10% of human protein consumption in the form of fish and shellfish, are one of the world’s largest carbon sinks which helps mitigate increased atmospheric CO2 levels, and provide educational and recreational values. However, as human population…
Monitoring pH and Acidity in Kombucha
Although many people still shudder at the thought of consuming something containing a colony of bacteria and yeast, kombucha is becoming an increasingly popular drink in Australia. Kombucha refers to a variety of fermented tea beverages. Due to the fermentation, its taste is both acidic and sweet, with a bit of effervescence from carbon dioxide…
