Sort and beer: Everything you wanted to know about the sorting task but did not dare to ask
Food Quality and PreferencePublished 26 February 2011
Sylvie Chollet, Maud Lelièvre‐Desmas, Hervé Abdi, Dominique Valentin
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The potential of the sorting task to describe beer sensory characteristics is examined, the type of assessors able to perform a sorting task is determined, the stability of the results is evaluated and some important methodological points that might impact the efficiency of the task are evaluated.
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