Quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) is both a system and
a state of mind. In Quality Labs for Small Brewers, author Merritt
Waldron walks you step-by-step through the process of establishing
and writing a quality program for your brewery. Your quality policy
should align with your company values and inculcate a quality-first
culture throughout your brewery. Building an effective quality
program will empower staff to directly influence the consistent
production of safe, quality beer from grain to glass. A good
quality program has many moving parts but it is underpinned by good
manufacturing practice (GMP) and food safety requirements. GMP
covers every aspect of a brewery's operation, not just how
personnel comport themselves, but how goods in are handled and
stored, how beer is held in the warehouse, and how equipment,
plant, and the grounds are maintained. Learn how to set standards
and critical control points, and how to effectively monitor your
process so that any deviation is quickly addressed. Discover how
policies, procedures, and specifications can help ensure quality
throughout every process. Involve your staff in establishing
standard operating procedures, corrective actions, and
improvements. Learn how to effectively delegate responsibility and
also ensure that management is armed with the information they need
to ultimately make what may be some tough decisions. If the worst
happens, understand that being able to make a tough call and having
a robust recall procedure in place means you can move quickly to
rectify matters, which helps your brewery retain the confidence of
your customers and distributors. Brewers will see results through
the application of GMP and food safety prerequisite programs. Your
quality manual laying out standard operating procedures, product
specifications, and corrective action plans will give your staff
the confidence to implement your quality program. With these
programs in place, the author then takes you through each area of
your brewery operation and breaks down how key parameters are
measured and analyzed at critical control points. Sampling plans
are outlined for monitoring density, temperature, pH, yeast
viability and growth, alcohol, carbonation, dissolved oxygen,
titratable acidity, fill height, and packaging integrity. Explore
setting up an effective sensory panel, even a small one, that will
help ensure each beer remains true-to-brand. Waldron outlines
building your brewery laboratory and looks at how to implement an
in-house microbiology program. Throughout this, the focus is on
scaling your efforts to the size of your operation and always being
ready to expand your quality program as your brewery grows. The
author makes it clear that no brewery is too small to implement
QA/QC and discusses pragmatic solutions to building out your
capabilities. Beyond taking meaningful, accurate measurements, the
author also explores how to analyze data. Learn some basics of
statistics and data organization and how to apply these techniques
to continuously monitor processes and spot when corrective action
is needed. These routines will help pinpoint any risks or areas of
improvement and ensure that only quality beer reaches the customer,
time after time.
General
Imprint: |
Brewers Publications
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2020 |
Authors: |
Merritt Waldron
|
Dimensions: |
277 x 214 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
277 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-938469-63-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-938469-63-1 |
Barcode: |
9781938469633 |
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