Equipment Applications for Beverages

tec5USA probes

This tec5USA probe is compliant with the 3-A Sanitary Standards organization ensuring that it meets the highest requirements for sanitation and safety. Click here to visit the probe page.

Malt sugars, ethanol and color

Producing a consistent alcohol content, mouth feel, color and remarkable consumer experience starts with the mash. Building a grain bill, improving the mash efficiency and accurately determining the ratio of fermentable and non-fermentable sugars will be controlled with batch-to-batch data that will drive consistency and continuous improvement. Then go on to monitor ethanol and sugars in your fermenter to link your end-to-end process with data.

Diacetyl and ester monitoring

Making great lagers requires long fermentation times and temperature control, especially when managing the diacetyl rest. tec5USA is seeking a partner to develop spectroscopic methods that will monitor and determine the end points of lager fermentation by reading alcohol, sugar and diacetyl concentrations in the fermenter. Move your beer through the process faster and confidently to extract more value from your ingredients and equipment.

To manage and monitor ale fermentation for desirable style appropriate esters and potential off notes, the same spectroscopic module will be trained to quantify relevant compounds present in your beer. Control the health of your yeast with real-time information about their performance.

Alcohol by Volume (ABV)

tec5USA recently attended the SPIE Photonics West Show in San Francisco, CA. As part of our display, we showcased a demonstration of an application to determine the percentage of alcohol by volume. Chris Krapf demonstrates in the video.

Optimize Beer Brewing With Optical Spectroscopy

tec5USA is implementing near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy in the end-to-end beer brewing process. Using chemometric models and real-time NIR detectors we quantify fermentable and non-fermentable sugars in the wort; IBU before pitching yeast and pre/post centrifuge; and carbohydrates, alcohol, and diacetyl in the fermenter. Agenda: What are the application targets in the brewing process? Why use tec5USA? How does NIR work, and how does it work for all these analytes? How does tec5USA equipment perform and how is it installed? What is the process for testing the equipment for my brewery with my recipes?