Our beer expertise
Affinity Labs is a key partner for craft and large-scale breweries, providing services for brewers to better understand their ingredients and maintain control of their processes to deliver consistent products that meet customer expectations. We offer a wide range of services including beer, water and hops testing and sensory assessment for detecting faults, maintaining product consistency and ensuring customer acceptance. We also provide small and pilot-scale packaging facilities and technical consulting for new product development or packaging projects.
Laboratory analysis
Affinity Labs’ NATA-accredited laboratories offer a broad range of tests for brewers including beer analysis suites covering colour, bitterness, stability and acidity; aroma and flavour profiling at trace levels; sterility and spoilage testing; water quality testing; and hops analysis. Featuring state-of-the-art equipment and modern facilities, Affinity Labs delivers high-quality and cost-effective laboratory analysis.
Sensory services
Affinity Labs offers specialised sensory services to assist in delivering products that satisfy and delight consumers. Our sensory experts, highly trained panels, consumer testing expertise and world-class facilities help breweries achieve optimum product performance.
Products & packaging
Affinity Labs provides diverse capabilities in product and packaging development, including new product development, packaging materials testing, shelf-life studies and technical trials. Our expert team of scientists and engineers offer tailored solutions and independent evaluations to help breweries achieve commercial success. In-house facilities deliver small and pilot-scale beer production for research and commercial projects, including process development, competitor benchmarking and boutique commercial production.
Sustainability
Affinity Labs’ team of scientists and engineers are skilled in the development and execution of environmental strategies across the food and beverage sector. We assist breweries to better understand their environmental footprint and provide practical solutions for managing, supporting and promoting sustainability.
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16 February 2022
Uncertainty of Measurement for Trace Laboratory Methods
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16 February 2022
Uncertainty of Measurement for Trace Laboratory Methods
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Affinity Labs’ NATA-accredited laboratories perform more than 100,000 analyses per year and have serviced the Australian wine industry since 1984. The laboratories deliver high-quality cost-effective routine, export or specialist analyses, whether it is for a single sample or a large batch of samples
Richard Davidson
Project Manager
Frequently asked questions
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