Beer under control (2013-08-15)

By the order of the Russian government Barley, Malt, Hops Beer and Beverage Union was instructed to develop and to enter a system of the permanent public control of quality characteristics and Russian beer production security, and also raw materials used for beer production, in order to check the conformity of parameters with Russian and international standards until the end of 2013.

For this purpose, a few times a year representatives of the union will implement sample purchase of brewing production of small, average and large transnational beer manufacturers, as well as take samples of malt, hop and hop products of both Russian and foreign origin.

Every domestic consumer of brewing production will have a free opportunity to check the quality of purchased beer product by sending a sample to the union address. Samples of beer and raw materials used for beer production will be sent to the respectable international research institutes for analyzing due to a large number of parameters (for example, production process, malt content, malt-free materials and sacchariferous components, organoleptic, microbiological and physicochemical properties, fitting of beer indicators declared on the label with the real content, using of chemical ferment agents, carbonization, conditioning period, aldehydes, presence of added alcohol from outside etc.)

We will procure control samples with different dates of filling and sale, packed in various types of tare through different wholesale and retail commercial networks. Particular attention will be paid to the conformity of Russian global beer brands with their European and world analogies, as well as to the conformance of declared “wheat”, “alcohol free”, “dark” etc. beer brands to the international requirements.

Media personnel, federal and regional public authorities will get information about results of the public control system regularly. Also results will be posted on the website of Barley, Malt, Hops Beer and Beverage Union. If beer products conform to the current Russian and foreign legal standards, these companies will give a “high quality mark of the brewer” and conformity certificate.

The first beer product batch will be purchased by the representatives of the Union till the end of August 2013 and the results of the sample purchase will be available on 20th of September 2013.

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