Talk:International Bitterness Units scale

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The IBU Unit is pretty useless. The volume of wort is irrelevent. The only real unit ot compare to is concentration of wort. Which would be directly related to the amount of barley. It is utter bullshit that a Guiness is higher on this made up scale than an IPA.

[edit] Formula

That formula can't be right: it claims that bitterness is proportional to the volume of wort, ie diluting the wort increases the bitterness. Elvum 22:49, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

The formula states that the bitterness is inversely proportional to the volume of wort, check out the division sign. 68.127.89.254 (talk) 09:21, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Analytical Method

Does anyone know the name of the analytical method that is used by labs to measure IBU? That would be a good reference to add to the article. I'm sure listing the method is outside the scope of the article, but if someone had access to a Spec or HPLC and wanted to measure bitterness, the article should poit to the correct procedure with the ASBC, EBC or whoever.Beakerboy 19:19, 8 October 2007 (UTC)