Welcome back to drinktec TV! I have a special
mission here today because I want to brew
my own beer, not quite as much as this, of
course, just a few litres. Craft beer is a
real trend nowadays and where better to find
out all about it than here at drinktec?! Let’s go!
I need to start with good ingredients. But
there are endless varieties of hops and malt.
So how do I choose? Well, that´s why I´m
here at „Hopfen und mehr“. They are distributor
and they have a starter kit which makes it
really easy. Hello.
Hello
This looks interesting. What´s that?
That´s a roasted malt with a chocolate note. Ohhh, let´s see.
Lovely, thank you, I´ll take that.
Yeast is of course essential for brewing beer.
But how do I know if my yeast is fermenting
properly? Well, modern technology can help
the hobby brewer. And that´s why I´m going
to talk to Kilian Moser from Oculyze. He is
going to show me how. What have you got here?
So, we got a smartphone microscope here, that
allows us to communicate with our yeast and
see how it´s doing.
So can you show me how it works?
Sure. So, we can select if you want to do
viability and concentration or just concentration.
What we going to do ist just we going to take
a couple of pictures. And these pictures we
going to send in to the cloud where we have
a powerful image recognition algorithms that
will count the yeast for you. So there we
got it, we have a concentration of 167 million cells
and in the histogramm we can see what
size our cells are and if we want to we can
also control, with our own eyes, if the algorithm
counted the cells correctly.
So, what would happen if I didn´t analyse
the yeast like this?
Well, you have to imagine the yeast is like
the worker in the factory. So the yeast is
the one who converts your sugars into alcohol
and CO2. You need a certain amount of yeast
to brew a certain type of beer. If you are
not sure if that´s the amount of yeast that
you got, you going to have something like
beer and maybe not what you want.
Great! So I´m one step closer to my own creation.
Thank you!
I´ve got my hops, malt and yeast sorted.
I’m really excited about the brewing process
but I want to do it properly. Sudkraft has
it’s own micro steam brewery with a twist!
So Marko, how did you come up with the idea
of a cement mixer for you micro steam brewery?
Well Tanja, we wanted it to turn around to
mix the ingredients and to produce every kind
of beer in top quality. And it should be done
mannualy, because it´s craft beer and that
means handcrafted.
I see, great! So can I order one and you will
deliver it to me next week?
For sure and I will do it personally.
Ohhh, a great customer service too!
Well I´ve got everything I need now. I even
got my own storage for my beer.
That’s it from drinktec TV 2017. I hope you have had
as much fun at the fair as I have had.
I´m looking forward to seeing you at drinktec
2021! I´m going to go home now and brew my own beer.
Auf Wiedersehen!
