Quality Characteristics of Wheat Malts with Different Country of Origin and Their Effect on Beer Brewing

Table 4

Overall acceptance for four beer samples depending on preference segments by agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis (AHC).

	Control		Korean wheat beer
	GB^1	UB	KB	AB
Total (n = 102)	5.92 ± 1.51^2	5.84 ± 1.55	5.63 ± 1.80	6.08 ± 1.48
Cluster 1^∗∗∗^3 (n = 30)	5.37 ± 1.67^b4	6.23 ± 1.45^a	3.47 ± 1.01^c	5.73 ± 1.55^ab
Cluster 2^∗ (n = 43)	6.49 ± 1.44^b	6.53 ± 1.20^b	7.14 ± 0.83^a	6.91 ± 0.92^ab
Cluster 3^∗∗∗ (n = 29)	5.66 ± 1.17^a	4.41 ± 1.15^b	5.62 ± 1.01^a	5.21 ± 1.47^a

¹GB, UB, KB, and AB represent wheat beers made from grist containing 50% of wheat malt from German, USA, and Korean wheat variety (Keumkang and Anzunbaengi), respectively. ²Mean ± standard deviation values by consumers; 1 = dislike extremely, 5 = neither like nor dislike, and 9 = like extremely. ^3∗∗∗ and ^∗ indicate significant differences between samples at and , respectively. ⁴Values with different superscript letters within a row represent significant difference at by Tukey’s multiple range test.