Developing an automated system for ongoing micro-adjustments during the fermentation stage of the honey distillation process.

北岛学院的工业自动化项目与当地的一家酿酒厂合作，研究和开发一种解决方案，以实现对其发酵过程的微调。NIC的电子和工业自动化讲师科里批，谁也是双红印章熟练工电工和工业仪器技工，将与科莫克斯谷的任性酒厂工作，以建立和开发一种连续和自动化发酵测试和微调整的方法，以取代目前的日常测试和调整系统。微调节将使发酵的pH平衡的峰值最小化，提供最佳生长环境，大大改善整体酵母健康，产生更少的不期望的风味醇，并显著改善总发酵效率。一名工业自动化专业的学生将被聘为该项目的研究助理，通过直接与一家不断发展和充满活力的当地公司合作开展创新项目来扩大他们的课堂学习。Wayward是加拿大第一家将蜂蜜发酵和蒸馏成烈酒的酿酒厂。作为该领域的先驱，Wayward规范了蜂蜜烈酒的概念，并为国家酒精法规的现代化奠定了基础。这个创新的研究项目，由加拿大自然科学和工程研究理事会（NSERC）参与赠款资助，将帮助任性增加他们的生产。反过来，这种增长将增加对高质量当地蜂蜜的需求，并将有助于增加蜜蜂数量，从而为BC省农作物授粉和健康的生态系统。

North Island College's Industrial Automation program has partnered with a local distillery to research and develop a solution to enable micro-adjustments to their ferment process. NIC's electronics and industrial automation instructor Cory Batch, who also is a dual Red Seal journeyman electrician and industrial instrument mechanic, will work with Comox Valley's Wayward Distillery in order to build and develop a method of continuous and automated ferment testing and micro-adjusting to replace the current system of daily testing and adjustments. Micro-adjustments would minimize spikes in the pH balance of the ferment, provide an optimum growth environment, greatly improve overall yeast health, produce fewer undesirably flavoured alcohols and significantly improve total ferment efficiency. An Industrial Automation student will be hired to work on this project as a research assistant, amplifying their classroom learning by working directly on an innovation project with a growing and dynamic local company. Wayward was the first distillery in Canada to ferment and distill honey into spirits. As a pioneer in their field, Wayward has normalized the concept of honey spirts and has been fundamental in modernizing national alcohol regulations. This innovative research project, funded by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage grant, will help Wayward to grow their production. In turn, this growth will increase demand for high quality local honey and will contribute to increased bee populations, resulting in pollination of BC agriculture crops and a healthy ecosystem.