European Brewery Convention is an organisation of technical experts for European brewers and maltsters, and the scientific and technological branch of The Brewers of Europe.

The European Brewery Convention defines a large number of beer and malt related analysis methods and scales, including the EBC scale for beer colour

Standard Reference Method

The Standard Reference Method or SRM is one of several systems modern brewers use to specify beer color. Determination of the SRM value involves measuring the attenuation of light of a particular wavelength in passing through 1 cm of the beer, expressing the attenuation as an absorption and...

, and the EBU scale for perceived bitterness.