“…Certain cinnamic acids behave as flavour precursors, since they break down and form new molecules with lower flavour thresholds (Rizzi & Boekley, 1992). These highly flavour-active volatile phenols, like 4-vinylphenol (4-VP) which originates from p-coumaric acid and 4-vinylguaiacol (4-VG), the decarboxylation product of ferulic acid, formed during thermal treatment and by enzyme activity, have been reported to influence the aroma and stabilise pigments of fruit juices (Fallico, Lanza, Maccarone, Asmundo, & Rapisarda, 1996;Rein, Ollilainen, Vahermo, Yli-Kauhaluoma, & Heinonen, 2005) and red wines (Morata, Gómez-Cordovés, Calderón, & Suárez, 2006). Some of the 4-vinyl derivatives of hydroxycinnamic acids, 4-VG and 4-vinylsyringol (4-VS), the latter the decarboxylation product of sinapic acid, are inherent to the beer production process, where they are formed by specific enzymes during fermentation or by thermal decarboxylation (Callemien, Dasnoy, & Collin, 2006;Vanbeneden, Gils, Delvaux, & Delvaux, 2008).…”