CDR BeerLab for Beer and Wort

This versatile system is specifically devised by CDR to respond to the needs of master brewers and to breweries of all size from small to large enterprises. The CDR BeerLab® analysis system allows you to perform a wide range of tests on beer, wort and water with a single device, faster and with ease compared to the traditional methods, all while being totally in-house without having to rely on external laboratories.

So you can determine the most important parameters during all brewing process phases; from the beginning of fermentation to bottling the finished product, all without the need for a chemical laboratory or experienced lab personnel.

How can you perform the tests?

With CDR BeerLab®, chemical tests on Beer, Wort and Water are performed in just a few steps and results are yielded right away:

• Select the parameter to measure from the menu: the system automatically selects the correct wavelength.
• Use the supplied pipette to add the correct volume of sample to the pre-vialed reagent, specifically developed by our laboratories. A colorimetric reaction is generated.
• Follow the displayed instructions.

The result of the test is automatically calculated, displayed and printed in just a few minutes in its unit of measure. If you need the Help function will lead you through the analysis process “Step by Step”.

You don’t have to handle toxic or carcinogenic compounds; there is no need to use fume hood or to wash either containers or traditional glassware. You can perform the tests at production line, even if you don’t have any laboratory technical skills. CDR beerLab® comes pre-calibrated and ready to use!

How does CDR BeerLab® Work? Watch the video

CDR BeerLab® for innovation in brewing process.

The important study “Beer-brewing powered by controlled hydrodynamic cavitation: Theory and real-scale experiments” is done by the Institute of Biometeorology of National Research Council (CNR) in Florence, Italy. The chemical analysis for the inline control of the brewing process has be done by the CDR BeerLab®.

The results of this scientific paper are published in on the Journal of Cleaner Production and have received important independent reviews: as the article published in the authoritative Technology Review of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (“This Technology Is About to Revolutionize Beer-Making,” 2016), as well as the article in the Draft Magazine and the mention of the Cornell University Library.

Evaluation Reports

CDR BeerLab® is reliable, easy to use and fast as confirmed by Campden BRI

The international reference analysis laboratory Campden BRI carried out a comparative study between the analytical methods exploited by the CDR BeerLab® and the reference methods. The study concluded that: “The correlation of analytical results obtained with CDR BeerLab® with the reference methods is very good for all types of tested beer and wort samples.”

Furthermore, the Campden BRI laboratory highlighted that:

• The instrument is easy to use
• The user interface is logical and simple
• No calibration is needed
• As compared with traditional methods, CDR BeerLab® analytical methods are much faster
• The system has a low environmental impact due to minimum waste production and very low volumes of sample and reagents used

Evaluation of the determination of VDK and yeast vitality in beer with the CDR BeerLab® – CampdenBRI

CDR Srl with QCL (QuadraChem Laboratories Ltd), the distributor of CDR products in United Kingdom, have requested to Campden BRI the evaluation of new VDKs concentration analysis and determination of yeast vitality, now available on the CDR BeerLab® Analyser.

The reference methods used are:

• Reference UKAS accredited VDK method (Campden BRI Method AM/008 based on Analytica-EBC, 9.24.2, 1999)
• The yeast acidification power test (APT), one of the most common vitality tests

Campden BRI study using the CDR BeerLab® Analyser showed that:

The instrument was easy to use

The user interface was logical and user friendly

Compared to the acidification power yeast vitality and the reference VDK methods, the CDR BeerLab® methods were much quicker

The system has a low environmental impact due to minimal waste production and the very low sample and reagent volumes required

Correlation between CDR BeerLab® and official methods for analysis of Beer, Wort and Water – University of Udine

Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmentaland Animal Sciences of the University of Udine Italy, under the guidance of Dr. Stefano Buiatti, performed:

• the evaluation of correlation between the results obtained using CDR BeerLab® and those obtaibed with EBC (European Brewery Convention) official methods
• the evaluation of the correlation between the results obtained with the CDR BeerLab® and those obtained with the official methods of analysis on the parameters relating to the quality control of water used in brewing.

The methods of CDR BeerLab® for analysis of beer, wort and water provided statistically correlated results (p <0.05) with low standard deviation values indicating good accuracy.

How is CDR BeerLab® System composed?

Instruments

CDR BeerLab® Analysis System uses an analyzer based on photometric technology, available in two versions, and a dedicated kit of pipettes. The ease and reliability of the system is based on exclusive technical features:

Reagent Kits

CDR BeerLab® Analysis Systems use low toxicity disposable pre-vialed reagents, specifically developed by the research laboratories of CDR. The use of pre-vialed reagents and dedicated analytical procedures allows:

SAVE YOUR TIME

CDR FoodLab® allows accelerating analytical procedures because you can perform 16 simultaneous tests. Furthermore, the Multitasking function allows performing several analyses at the same time on the same sample or sixteen different assays for the same parameter on a batch of different samples. All of this in an simple and fast way.

Analysis of Beer, Wort and Water for in-house brewing process control and Analytical Kits

Analysis