Precision Fermentation

The ever-increasing consumption of fermented food and brewed beverages drives the demand for consistently high product quality and longer shelf-life. This is leading brewers and fermenters to emphasize more accurate and frequent sampling in order to achieve better fermentation results. Historically, this has been done through time-intensive and expensive manual processes.

Precision Fermentation, Inc. is shifting this paradigm with its flagship product, BrewIQ. The system replaces cumbersome manual sampling with automated processes that assure enhanced fermentation and product quality. Through higher-resolution data and analysis, BrewIQ helps brewers boost efficiency and production throughput, improve quality, and increase revenue.

Recognizing the struggle of acquiring labor, products, and raw materials during the pandemic, Precision Fermentation launched BrewIQ to help brands streamline the fermentation process. From a global perspective, the system frees individuals chained to their fermentation tanks, breweries, and farms and empowers them with visibility into their units across multiple locations. BrewIQ is the first comprehensive, real-time, and remote fermentation monitoring system that collects and centralizes data from tanks to efficiently run an entire fermentation operation and deliver valuable product outcomes.

BrewIQ easily integrates with existing fermentation tanks and connects directly to the sample port of each tank. The Fermentation Hub attaches to the tank and then circulates the liquid across its multiple sensors to record the variations. It records real-time values for dissolved oxygen, pH, gravity, temperature, pressure, and conductivity. This data is stored in the BrewIQ cloud and can then be accessed from any smartphone, tablet, or PC to instantly detect problems, improve consistency, save time, reduce costs, and minimize risks.

“From increasing fermentation quality and consistency to reducing waste and expenses, BrewIQ offers reliable and precise results to satisfy both a brewery business and its customers,” says Jared Resnick, CEO of Precision Fermentation.

Through its robust automation and analytics capabilities, BrewIQ optimizes production, reduces human errors, and minimizes waste from a production and environmental standpoint. It also enables product benchmarking using state-of-the-art data acquisition methods, ensuring superior quality consistency. In cases where fermentation strays from desired values or experiences other disruptions, BrewIQ notifies users to take suitable and timely actions, preventing production constraints and delays.

BrewIQ helps brewers plan production and delivery according to their unique needs, amplifying product creativity and profitability. For facilities that have maxed out their production capabilities and want to turn tanks more quickly, BrewIQ can more accurately determine when a tank has reached terminal gravity, saving 12 to 24 hours of time savings per batch.

A key cog in Precision Fermentation’s success is its specialists and executive team, who leverage 150 years of combined technology, science, and F&B experience to actively research age-old and cutting-edge fermentation methods and improve its products. Simultaneously, Precision Fermentation’s product engineering team continuously works to streamline its software’s user experience and ability to insightfully provide data. Above all, the seasoned team, comprising brewery, genetics, and yeast development scientists represent Precision Fermentation’s multi-parametric approach to data acquisition and delivery, which sets it apart from market contemporaries.

Substantiating the impact Precision Fermentation has on the brewing industry is a success story of a brewery producer looking to optimize their fermentation process. This client had never considered conductivity as one of their vital parameters for increasing production efficacy. Through this collaboration, Precision Fermentation helped them understand the impact of conductivity on fermentation processes, offering accurate conductivity readings to help the brewery recognize the importance of monitoring water quality and its effects on their products.

Similar successes drive Precision Fermentation's position as a reliable partner that leverages data collection and predictive analysis to help fermenters yield better outcomes. Moving forward, it aims to enlighten more fermentation businesses through data-driven models that facilitate remote fermentation monitoring.