Spectroscopic and chemical fingerprints in malted barley

A unique "Matrix" of malted barley samples was produced to validate spectroscopic procedures for monitoring the malting process. Three critical factors that were examined in controlling the rate of germination were moisture content, temperature and germination time. Of interest to the malt...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tarr, A., Diepeveen, Dean, Appels, R.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57834
_version_ 1848760110211399680
author Tarr, A.
Diepeveen, Dean
Appels, R.
author_facet Tarr, A.
Diepeveen, Dean
Appels, R.
author_sort Tarr, A.
building Curtin Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
description A unique "Matrix" of malted barley samples was produced to validate spectroscopic procedures for monitoring the malting process. Three critical factors that were examined in controlling the rate of germination were moisture content, temperature and germination time. Of interest to the malting industry, the analysis indicates the potential to identify new germplasm that, under optimized malting conditions, would produce suitably modified malt in three days of germination. It is also clear that the control of both moisture and temperature is essential for undertaking malting studies. The study suggests that Raman and FTIR could usefully complement NIR spectroscopy for monitoring grain during the malting process. For whole grain NIR measurements, the differences between test grain and control grain at optimal wavelengths of 1280 nm and 2224 nm were found to be valuable parameters for tracking progress during the malting process. The study showed the whole grain NIR most likely assessed changing properties of the periphery of the grain. This research suggested that specific calibration models using NIR for predicting malt quality attributes such as diastatic activity on whole malt are misleading and difficult to interpret because they are highly correlated with other carbohydrate/protein-related attributes of the malt. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
first_indexed 2025-11-14T10:10:34Z
format Journal Article
id curtin-20.500.11937-57834
institution Curtin University Malaysia
institution_category Local University
last_indexed 2025-11-14T10:10:34Z
publishDate 2012
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling curtin-20.500.11937-578342018-03-29T09:08:11Z Spectroscopic and chemical fingerprints in malted barley Tarr, A. Diepeveen, Dean Appels, R. A unique "Matrix" of malted barley samples was produced to validate spectroscopic procedures for monitoring the malting process. Three critical factors that were examined in controlling the rate of germination were moisture content, temperature and germination time. Of interest to the malting industry, the analysis indicates the potential to identify new germplasm that, under optimized malting conditions, would produce suitably modified malt in three days of germination. It is also clear that the control of both moisture and temperature is essential for undertaking malting studies. The study suggests that Raman and FTIR could usefully complement NIR spectroscopy for monitoring grain during the malting process. For whole grain NIR measurements, the differences between test grain and control grain at optimal wavelengths of 1280 nm and 2224 nm were found to be valuable parameters for tracking progress during the malting process. The study showed the whole grain NIR most likely assessed changing properties of the periphery of the grain. This research suggested that specific calibration models using NIR for predicting malt quality attributes such as diastatic activity on whole malt are misleading and difficult to interpret because they are highly correlated with other carbohydrate/protein-related attributes of the malt. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57834 10.1016/j.jcs.2012.02.007 restricted
spellingShingle Tarr, A.
Diepeveen, Dean
Appels, R.
Spectroscopic and chemical fingerprints in malted barley
title Spectroscopic and chemical fingerprints in malted barley
title_full Spectroscopic and chemical fingerprints in malted barley
title_fullStr Spectroscopic and chemical fingerprints in malted barley
title_full_unstemmed Spectroscopic and chemical fingerprints in malted barley
title_short Spectroscopic and chemical fingerprints in malted barley
title_sort spectroscopic and chemical fingerprints in malted barley
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57834