Hop Creep, Costs, and Productivity – Benefits of the Jumbo Star System for Craft Breweries
Since their origin, microbreweries have always focused on producing high-quality, genuine beers. Strong market growth of the last few years has posed significant challenges to the sector: increased productivity without compromising the pillars of craft-beer vs. industrial-beer making, i.e. quality and genuineness. At the same time, multiple financial crisis, the latest brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, have caused high uncertainty in entrepreneurial investments.
The Jumbo Star system responds to this demand as a technological solution for the clarification step after maturation. In fact, it ensures improvement of product quality as well as reduction of production costs (reduced beer loss during filtration, low cost of consumables and much shorter filtration time).
The use of Jumbo Star for production in an Italian microbrewery brought about a 3 to 8% beer loss reduction, with 50% knockdown of both post-fermentation processing time and annual cost of consumables. Moreover, for beers hopped with the dry hopping method, filtration with Jumbo Star prevented hop creep in bottled beer.