Sensory lexicon and aroma volatiles analysis of brewing malt

ARTICLE OPEN Sensory lexicon and aroma volatiles analysis of brewing malt Xiaoxia Su 1,2,3 ✉, Miao Yu 1,2,3 , Simin Wu 1,2,3 , Mingjuan Ma1,2,3 , Hongxu Su 4 , Fei Guo1,5 , Qi Bian 1,2,3 and Tianyi Du 1,2,3 Malt is an important raw material in brewing beer. With the increasing development of craft beer, brewing malt has contributed diverse colours and abundant flavours to beer. While “malty” and “worty” were commonly used to describe the malt flavour of beer, they are still inadequate. This...