Beer production

A Yorkshire pizza company has launched a pizza that uses spent grains from beer production to make “healthier” and more nutritious products.

The Homemade Pizza Club claims that using beer dregs doubles the fiber content and increases the protein content of pizza bases by around 14%, while reducing calories by 22% and providing 20% ​​less sodium .

It also argues that it is more sustainable, allowing the company to tap some of the 250 million tonnes of depleted grain that is typically thrown away or used as a feed supplement for livestock due to its high protein content.

He claims the Healthy Pizza is a major innovation for the industry as the first HFSS-free tomato-topped pizza base (no high fat, salt and sugar) that is available to customers online.

Homemade Pizza Club founder James Sturdy said the company was inspired by the need to improve the nutritional content of pizza and move to a more circular economy without compromising on taste.

“Healthier products are often seen as a compromise or less like a treat, [but] with the Healthy, we’ve created a product that we believe delivers everything people love about eating pizza while making it much healthier, ”he said.

“The future of food lies not only in improving nutrition, but also in reducing waste and Le Salubre also ticks this box by reusing the spent grains from the brewing process. This means a highly nutritious food source that goes back into human consumption which is otherwise thrown away or sent for animal feed.

Brewers’ spent grain (BSG) is a by-product of the brewing industry that is created after the grain has been malted (soaked, sprouted and gently cooked) and then crushed to extract protein, sugar, and nutrients. The resulting liquid can be dried to stabilize it and give it more longevity and turned into flour.

Drain accounts for around 85% of brewing waste, although it is a valuable source of phenolic compounds, with antioxidant, anti-free radical, anti-carcinogenic and anti-apoptotic properties, according to the scientific journal Frontiers.

After more than four years of brewing and canning beers one at a time, Scott Cavendish has added a canning machine that will make the process at Cavendish Brewing Co. 10 times faster.

Workers will go from a canning capacity of just 300 beers per day to more than 3,000 beers per day, Cavendish said.

Cavendish Brewing Co. sent its first set of Cowboy Water American Light Lager through the canning line, then labeling, then into the hands of customers last month.

“This is the first beer to go through the canning machine and we’re all set to can 150 cases of beer on our first draw,” Cavendish said.

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Cavendish had a mountain of 6,000 aluminum cans ready to fill with North Carolina craft beer.

“During COVID, we canned 30,000 cans of beer one can at a time on a crowler machine,” Cavendish said.

A canned version of a growler, a crowler makes beer easy to canning and on the go. But the process can be difficult for workers filling beers to the point where they can barely move their hands, Cavendish said.

“It was either buying a machine or everyone was going to quit,” he joked.

The machine cost Cavendish $ 40,000. He described it as super advanced with sensors everywhere, adding that it can purge the can of carbon dioxide, a process that helps the beer stay fresher in the can for longer. The machine also rinses the outside of the box before and after adding content, Cavendish said.

Cavendish Brewing Co. was left without customers during parts of the pandemic. Without customers in the establishment’s taproom, located at the intersection of US 321 and Long Avenue, the brewery lost 80% of its activity.

“And then the other 20% were selling kegs to bars that were now all closed and none of them were buying beer,” Cavendish said.

The new canning machine offers interesting perspectives for the brewery. When staff filled boxes by hand, the process was slow and cost $ 1 in labor for each box filled, Cavendish said.

“If you think of each case with $ 24 of labor to do it, you can’t sell the cases for much more than that,” Cavendish said.

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Cavendish beers will now make their way to various other establishments. Cavendish said he has already ordered 40 cases of cans. The beer will be distributed to Gastonia as well as to Charlotte.

Aside from some craft beers, Cavendish beers are made with North Carolina ingredients and by North Carolina locals.

“If you buy our local beer, most of it goes here in Gastonia,” he said.

While he may be biased, Cavendish said the best beer in town comes from Cavendish Brewing Co. The brewery has won nine gold medals for its beers in the past.

Beer lovers can expect to see a tropical IPA, October party, and pumpkin ale on the market soon.

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South African breweries have stopped producing beer.

The country’s largest beer maker, South African Breweries (SAB), has halted all production following the extension of the government-imposed alcohol ban under lockdown regulations.

The government instituted the ban in late June as South Africa was hit by a deadly third wave of Covid-19 to keep hospital beds available for Covid-19 patients and free from trauma cases alcohol-related. The ban was extended on July 10.

“As SAB enters [a sales] ban, it implements an orderly liquidation process by which the brews [that] are underway are completed and no new brewing is being started, ”the company told Fin24.

The brewer added that he could not confirm whether this would lead to shortages once the ban was lifted, but said it exacerbated the pressure on the industry.

SAB also confirmed that its depot in Pietermaritzburg had been looted and “left bare”, while its depot in Denver in Johannesburg suffered minor damage.

Brewer Carling Black Label added that one of its dispensers was also looted, resulting in vehicle damage and loss of stock. The company is assisted by the police, private security companies and the South African National Defense Force to ensure the security of its assets.

SAB is not the only alcohol producer to have been affected by the looting, on Wednesday evening the distribution center of savannah maker Distell in New Germany, Durban, was attacked for the second time.

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