BEACON will be holding a free seminar on the Enhanced Utilization of Alcoholic Beverage By-Products on 22nd January in Bangor University. The seminar will be useful for those in pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and other food producers who may be able to utilise the waste streams.

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Topics Include…

• Management and recovery of by-products from yeast, not just marmite!
• Recovery of by-products from Brewer’s Spent grain (BSG) and “trub”
• What’s next for fruit based alcoholic beverage waste, such as cider, wine and spirits?
• Utilizing carbon dioxide
• Industrial symbiosis leading to a biorefinery
• Towards zero waste in beer production
• Carbon footprint and sustainability

This FREE seminar will appeal to professionals and producers within the brewery, cider, wine, spirits, malting, and hop industries in Wales. The event provides a unique environment for industry and academia to network, share knowledge, establish research collaborations and identify and explore future research opportunities.

This seminar provides a unique opportunity to bring together industry and science to highlight the scope of opportunities that exist to maximise value from waste streams and derive multiple high value by-products, for a wide range of commercial applications.

Speakers:

• Bill Dobson, Head Brewer – SA Brains & Co Ltd
• John Clarke – Apple County Cider
• Andrew Martin, Head of Business Development, Food & Drink Wales – Welsh Government
• Buster Grant, Chairman – Drinks Wales
• Rob Turner, Director – Mumbles Brewery
• Paul Corbett, Managing Director – Charles Faram: Hop Merchants
• Dr David Griggs, Technical Director – Crisp Malting Group

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