Craft Brewery Process Optimization and Yeast Program Development

精炼愚人酿造公司(RFB)是一家总部位于萨尼亚的精酿啤酒厂，在安大略省萨尼亚拥有两个零售点。RFB最初是当地萨尼亚民居的一群人在自家后院酿造啤酒，现在已经发展成为每月24,000名L的操作员。RFB专注于在过去几年取得成功的基础上成长和扩张。随着经济增长，面临的挑战和问题也越来越多。也就是说，当一家啤酒厂摆脱微型啤酒厂的地位时，它现在必须与更大的啤酒厂竞争。这不仅需要在酿造技术方面取得重大进步，而且还需要在质量保证/质量控制(QA/QC)程序方面取得重大进步，以确保更大数量的啤酒符合经销商所需的高质量标准。因此，RFB正在与兰伯顿学院的生物工业过程研究中心-技术访问中心(BPRC TAC)合作，以改进和优化他们的两个运营领域：优化的生产流程和受控的酵母计划。许多精酿啤酒厂不具备以优化方式从小批量生产转向大批量生产的专业知识。这导致了在扩张过程中的许多质量和一致性问题，主要依赖于对成品的感官分析。有能力与兰伯顿学院合作，在整个发酵过程中测试和调整我们的产品和工艺，并作为最终产品，将使RFB走在工艺酿造行业的前沿，确保我们的产品具有最高的质量和货架稳定性。该项目的成功将使RFB能够扩大其在各种分销渠道的市场份额，知道其发出的产品是最高质量的，并使RFB能够将业务从Sarnia扩展到安大略省的其他地区，以及潜在的出口市场。

Refined Fool Brewing Company (RFB) is a Sarnia based craft brewery with two retail locations in the city of Sarnia Ontario. RFB started as a group of local Sarnia residence brewing beer from their backyard and has evolved into a 24,000 L per month operation. RFB is focused on growing and expanding on the success that it has seen in the past few years. With growth, there are growing challenges and issues. Namely, when a brewery moves out of microbrewery status it now has to compete with larger brewhouses. This requires significant advancements in not only brewing techniques but to the Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) procedures to ensure the larger volumes meet the high-quality standards needed from the distributors. Therefore, RFB is collaborating with Lambton College's Bio-industrial Process Research Centre - Technology Access Centre (BPRC TAC) to improve and optimize two areas of their operation: An optimized production process and a controlled yeast program.Many craft breweries do not have the expertise to move from small batch production to large batch in an optimized way. This leads to many quality and consistency issues during expansion and relying mostly on sensory analysis of their finished product. Having the ability to collaborate with Lambton College to test and adapt our product and process throughout its fermentation, and as a finished product, will allow RFB to be at the forefront of the craft brewing industry, ensuring our product is of the highest quality and shelf stability. The success of this project would allow RFB to grow its market share in various distribution channels knowing that its product being sent out is of the highest quality and allow RFB to expand busineses beyond Sarnia to the rest of Ontario and potentially export markets as well.