BRASSINOV® CONTEST

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BRASSINOV®, WHAT IS IT ?

Since 2021, innovation has a special place at the Salon du Brasseur as the first edition of a competition reserved for exhibitors was born: the BRASSINOV® Contest.

 

This annual competition is organized by the Musée Français de la Brasserie and DESTINATION NANCY. It highlights the innovations of the exhibitors at the show and rewards those that meet the requirements of the societal and environmental challenges of the entire malting and brewing industry: from raw materials to beer consumers.


THE BRASSINOV® CONTEST IS FREE OF CHARGE AND RESERVED FOR EXHIBITORS REGISTERED TO THE SALON DU BRASSEUR.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE ?

Registration for the BRASSINOV® competition is free of charge, provided that you are an exhibitor at the Salon du Brasseur and contribute to the improvement of the malting and brewing industry through your activity and research efforts.

In addition to being a direct exhibitor or co-exhibitor, you must be able to present your product/machine/equipment/service at your booth on the day of the Brewer’s Show. This must also be launched after September 30, 2023.

You must declare your innovations via the registration form below. Each innovation must be the subject of a separate registration file.

Participants have until September 27, 2024 to submit their entries via the registration form below.

The Jury, composed of experts recognized in their field of expertise, meets in October to select the winners.

The awards ceremony takes place during the opening of the Salon du Brasseur.

PARTICIPATION COMPLETED. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WINNERS AT THE SALON DU BRASSEUR.

PARTICIPANTS IN 2024

Discover the list of participating exhibitors and their products presented in the contest !

Product: SafSour™ Barrel Instinct & SafSour™ Fruit Intuition

Safsour™ Fruit Intuition and Safsour™Barrel Instinct are blends of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Brettanomyces Bruxellensis, Lactobacillus and Pedioccoccus in dry form. They have been created to produce complex, mixed-fermentation acid beers.

 

Innovation/New: SafSour™ Fruit Intuition delivers aromatic complexity, a broad fruit spectrum and delicate acidity. SafSour™ Barrel Instinct, on the other hand, offers fermentative and woody aromatic complexity as well as balanced acidity, significant dryness and rich fruit expression.
These products are the first mixes of yeast and lactic bacteria in dry form on the market; until now, this type of solution only existed in liquid format. The dry format is easy to use and can be stored for up to two years.

Product: LalBrew Premium – Pomona™

LalBrew Pomona™ is a hybrid brewing yeast selected for its unique aromas and fermentative performance. Its contribution to biotransformation during fermentation promotes the production of peach, tropical fruit and citrus aromas. LalBrew Pomona™ results from a cross between a highly aromatic strain and a highly resistant strain. The resulting clones were then subjected to the laboratory process known as “adaptive evolution”, where the heavily hopped culture medium exerts a strong stress on the yeast.

 

Innovation/New: this is a unique strain resulting from several years of research and development required for sporulation, crossbreeding and evolutionary adaptation. This yeast optimizes hopping to produce the aromas typical of IPA beers, in line with the expectations of today’s consumers. The yeast’s characteristics ensure safe fermentations and rapid marketing of naturally aromatic craft and industrial beers with stable cloudiness.

Product : HyperBoost™ – Oil Boosted Hop Extract

HyperBoost™ is created utilizing hop pellets that are extracted using only supercritical CO2 and further filtrated to produce > 40% oil extract. The extraction process removes solids resulting in a final product that is 100% hop material in a liquid form with no solvents or artificial additions. The product is packaged into 100 g and 1 kg containers. HyperBoost™ is utilized in the brewing process in the fermenter as an active or post-fermentation dry hop addition.

 

Innovation /New :YCH created HyperBoost with the goal to create a hop aroma product that showed the true to type varietal aromatic characteristic that could be used for cold brewing applications. A brewer can gain efficiencies with HyperBoost by adding this as a dry-hop product. Created to amplify hop aromatics, HyperBoost provides a unique ingredient for brewers to utilize in place of hop pellets in the dry-hop stage, later in the brewing process. Utilization later in the brewing process allows HyperBoost to impart specific aromas and flavors without the addition of bitterness. Traditionally brewers use hop pellets in the dry hopping stage and HyperBoost provides a user friendly, pourable option that adds both varietal boost of aromas and flavors to beer making it unique to the industry.

Product: Nagardo®

Nagardo® Natural Guardian for beverage quality is a natural antimicrobial obtained from the edible Sweet Osmanthus Ear mushroom and extracted without chemical modification. In this way, the natural preservative meets the demand for more natural products while offering effective protection and extending the shelf life and freshness of alcohol-free beers.

 

Innovation/New: The application of Nagardo® provides a viable solution for natural preservation that reduces energy consumption, thus furthering sustainability objectives. At the same time, it provides breweries with enhanced operational adaptability, and offers an excellent solution for small breweries to avoid the complexity of chamber or tunnel pasteurization to produce alcohol-free beer.

Product : ECO ORIGIN REMBO CO2

Air Liquide is the very first to offer CO2 with a significantly reduced carbon footprint thanks to renewable sources and energies, following a long certification process.
It is the only company today to offer this low-carbon product that is both certified and complies with the highest quality standards (food-grade quality, as for carbonating soft drinks).

 

Innovation/New : The ECO ORIGIN methodology is certified by an independent third party, in accordance with international standards ISO 14021 and ISO 14067.
Thanks to ECO ORIGIN, our customers’ CO2e emissions are reduced across all their scopes: from their scope 3, upstream and downstream covering the purchase of raw materials and the final use of products, as well as those from scope 1 corresponding to the CO2 emitted during production. CO2 with biogenic attributes: CO2 produced from biomass has a short cycle and a neutral effect on the climate, unlike CO2 of fossil origin.
Renewable energy: during production, CO2 is liquefied, purified and packaged using 100% renewable energy.
Transport emissions: reduced thanks to optimized delivery routes and the introduction of alternative fuels.

Product : The Philler

Isobaric 4-spout bottle filler for small breweries and brewpubs. The range also includes a single-bottle and an 8-bottle machine. A small-scale 4-bottle isobar bottling machine, which automates the pressurized filling process, designed for small breweries… with a budget probably under 3000 euros. When the operator places the bottle on the spout, the machine expels the oxygen, injects the necessary CO2 counter-pressure according to the liquid’s carbonation level, fills the bottle, then checks the depressurization, before the operator unhooks the bottle. Estimated output of the 4-spout version on initial tests: 300-400 33 cl/h bottles.
The system is controlled by an Arduino processor, and various sensors measure bottle presence, filling level and pressure.

 

Innovation/New : There’s no equivalent in this price range (€2500 ex. VAT). The Philler counter-pressure bottling machine (for carbonated beer) features 4 nozzles which automatically assess the need for counter-pressure, automatically measure the filling level and fully control it. The Philler can fill from 250 to 450 bottles per hour, depending on bottle volume. The CIP cycle is fully programmable. The Philler accepts a wide range of bottle formats (25 cl to 1 liter). Prototype and demonstration on the stand.

Product : BrauKon eKon

BrauKon eKon is a modular, future-proof energy system, heat pump driven, for the brewery – without compromising on processes and beer quality!
Thanks to the modular principle, the size and use of the energy storage tanks can be adapted to the specific needs of the brewery.

 

Innovation/New : While the classic energy storage system in multi-vessel brewhouses only acts as an energy swing between the vapor condenser and the lauter wort heater, the extended eKon energy storage system can also make the thermal energy from wort boiling available to other processes such as the CIP system or the bottle washer.
A low-temperature energy storage tank, which serves as a heat source for the high-temperature heat pump, can also be used to supply the building heating system.
The high-temperature energy storage tank, which is charged by the high-temperature heat pump, can supply not only the brewhouse with heating water at ideal supply temperatures,
but also other consumers such as a pasteurizer.
By using multi-stage energy storage tanks, any type of energy input can be integrated.
Be it the continued operation of existing boilers, the use of district heating or the recovery of waste heat from glycol chillers or air compressors. It is also possible to completely dispense with fossil fuels, for example by integrating solar or geothermal energy or an additional heat pump. Changes to the general conditions can therefore be addressed at any time.

Product : LIBERO BEER

Libero Beer consists of a membrane system specifically designed to separate alcohol from standard beer. The resulting products are de-alcoholized beer on one side and a
hydro-alcoholic solution on the other. Libero Beer is then combined with other technologies, introducing only deaerated water and then transferring the product to a Flash-pasto-carbo.

 

Innovation/New : Easybräu-Velo, brand part of the Omnia Technologies Group, specialized in the production process of craft and industrial beer, presents Libero Beer, a solution designed to produce a non-alcoholic product starting from beer brewed in a traditional process, while maintaining the organoleptic characteristics defined by the brewmaster.
Libero Beer is the core technology in the de-alcoholization process and consists of a membrane system specifically designed to separate alcohol from beer. Libero Beer is then combined with other technologies to ensure high market standards in terms of stability, shelf life, and flavor. It is paired with a deaerated water system and a Flash-pasto-carbo unit.

Key advantages:

  • Adaptable to any brewery size. Operating range: from 10 hl per day up to over 200 hl per day.
  • Continuous operation option available upon request.
  • The selected Beer membranes allow the treatment of unfiltered products.
  • Together with complementary technologies, it can also be applied to the production of other non-alcoholic beverages (soft drinks, ready-to-drink drinks, etc.).
  • Return on investment calculated not only for NAB (Non-Alcoholic Beer) or LAB (Low-Alcohol Beer) but also for other products (soft drinks, ready-to-drink, etc.).

Product : CP-4

Back-pressure canning with over 6.5g/l of co2. This “auctioneer” has 4 heads and can assemble up to 30 cans per minute. Ideal for all beverages from beer to soda. Extremely low dissolved oxygen levels thanks to counterpressure technology. Ultra-compact, highly mobile technology.

 

Innovation/New : In contrast to atmospheric technology, the product is in an environment entirely under co2, with a layer of co2 deposited before the cap is fitted and crimped.

Product : Micro CO2 Box

The Micro CO2 Box is a system for analyzing, purifying and compressing CO2 from alcoholic fermentation. It is suitable for breweries producing between 1,000 and 10,000HL per year, and can compress between 12 and 50 kg of CO2 per day. After compression, the CO2 is stored in tanks at 8 bar or more. Once stored, the CO2 can be reused within the brewery for various purposes, such as inerting or carbonating beer.

The Micro CO2 Box is an automated system, enabling users to measure and monitor CO2 quality online.

 

Innovation/New : Thanks to the Micro CO2 Box, brewers can have food-grade CO2 at their disposal and be self-sufficient in CO2 all year round. This enables them to reduce their environmental footprint by avoiding the purchase and transport of fossil CO2. By recycling their own CO2 and storing it directly within the brewery, they eliminate their strategic dependence on external suppliers.
Previous technologies were only available to breweries producing very large volumes, in order to be able to amortize the equipment. With the Micro CO2 Box, W Platform offers low-tech equipment at a very attractive price, giving brewers a return on investment of between 3 and 6 years.
This equipment is the fruit of over 15 years’ experience in the capture and treatment of fermentative CO2, first acquired in the wine sector by W Platform co-founder Jean-Philippe Ricard, then in the brewing sector thanks to interactions with brewers over the past 18 months.

Product : Cervizy

BEER A BETTER WAY
Cervizi™ from Wild Goose Filling enhances the experiences of bartenders, guests and bar owners by providing labor efficiency, expedited service and increased revenue.

 

Innovation/New : EXPERTS IN BOTTOM-FILL POURING
Cervizi from Wild Goose Filling integrates the same Wild Goose technology used to package hundreds of millions of canned beverages across the world. As pioneers in beer filling, Wild Goose has applied proven bottom-fill fast-pour innovations, foam control and user-friendly operation to create a new beer dispensing experience through Cervizi.
Cervizi alleviates over-foaming and slow pour inefficiencies of traditional draft lines. With its patented technology, Cervizi yields an average of up to 20% more sellable beer or wine per keg, boosting profits and promoting environmental responsibility.

Product : LONG NECK ECOVA 33CL

Verallia France reinvents a classic design for the brewing market: the Long Neck 33 cl.
Thanks to its expertise in lightweighting, Verallia has redesigned this bottle to help brewers of all sizes reduce their environmental impact. The Long Neck 33 cl bottle is now available in an ECOVA version (ECO for Ecological and VA for Valorisation) weighing 185 g, in Yellow and Ebony.

 

Innovation/New : Manufactured at Verallia’s Vauxrot (Soissons) plant in France, a specialist in beer references, the new Long Neck ECOVA 33 cl retains its elegant, slender design for reduced environmental impact. Drawing on its 15 years’ experience in lightweighting, Verallia has applied its expertise to the beer market by lightening the Long Neck 33 cl by 35g, reducing its weight from 220g to 185g without modifying the neck finish. For 1 million yellow-tinted bottles, this weight reduction means a reduction of 12 tonnes of CO2 eq, or the equivalent of 7 round-trips from Paris to New York. To succeed in this lightweighting challenge, Verallia has invested in a a new production method for glass containers at Vauxrot: “press-blown”. This new equipment pushes back the limits of lightweighting, achieving 16% less weight and CO2 on this new reference. Finally, like all Verallia packaging, this bottle benefits from the advantages inherent in glass: a neutral and inert material, glass is also 100% recyclable ad infinitum.

Product : AJOUT TEXTES ESSENTIELS EN BRAILLE

As printers, we worked on the accessibility of beer labels to encourage our customers to add essential information in Braille. Our prototype includes the name of the product, its type, the degree of alcohol and the mention CONSIGNEE for breweries that adhere to reuse and deposit schemes. We offer two techniques: embossing or screen-printed swelling varnish, the choice depending on the design and paper substrate.

 

Innovation/New : The use of Braille on wine labels is becoming increasingly common, but this principle of accessibility is not currently implemented on beer labels. We have deliberately created a prototype to systematically present to our customers and encourage them to take the plunge. The character format (fixed) means we have to get straight to the point: product name, type, alcohol volume. For our demonstration model, we opted for a non-alcoholic lager.
Our two techniques (embossing / embossed varnish) enable our customers to reuse the tools whatever the decoration, batch number or DLUO. They are also compatible with re-use specifications, which is why we have included the word CONSIGNEE in Braille. In addition to giving details of the bottle’s contents, this label helps to reinforce sorting habits among the visually impaired.

Product : NU on Tour® A STAR moduls

NU on Tour® A STAR modules are mobile washing stations equipped with high-performance NU® glasswashers of the worldwide established brand by SPÜLBOY®. They are placed flexible at any event location so that guests can easily clean their glasses and reusable cups. Our clever Aqua Management guarantees fresh water for a 100% hygienic and most resource saving cleaning of drinking vessels all over the world at any place.

 

Innovation/New : Take away and clean it up! The NU on Tour® A STAR module system is a groundbreaking concept for the future of the event industry and offers a maximum mobility for indoor and outdoor events. It guarantees the health of guests who can wash and rinse their own glasses or reusable cups 100% hygienically clean. Thanks to the particularly economical water consumption of DIN certified SPÜLBOY NU® glasswashers we ensure the most efficient and resource friendliest cleaning of cups and glasses. The intelligent Aqua Management offers total freedom. Our flushing modules can be operated independently without
a fixed freshwater connection: with compressed gas bottle, electric pump or manual party pump. A STAR modules are configurable for glass washing hygiene, hand hygiene and dispensing hygiene without any limits.

Product : Stainless steel drum washing, rental and maintenance services

Soofût is a company that provides craft breweries with washing, rental and maintenance services for reusable stainless steel kegs. We have washing centers in the Pays de la Loire, Ile de France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie regions.
The sector aims to reduce and counter the use of single-use plastic drums by giving local producers easy access to reusable stainless steel drums. At present, the disposable PET drums used by many producers end up in local landfill sites and are not recycled.

 

Innovation/New : Our aim is to provide an innovative, economical and ecological solution to limit the development and use of single-use drums made from a variety of plastics.
Soofût is an ESS (Social and Solidarity Economy) company, with ESUS (Entreprise Solidaire d’Utilité Sociale) accreditation, and as part of its activities promotes the social and professional integration of people who are far from employment or disabled. Because every keg counts… don’t leave your kegs alone and unused. We can repair them!
🔧 Our Services: In each of our wash centers, we have all the tools needed to maintain and repair OUR drums and YOUR drums. Changing plunger seals, replacing plungers, repairing to make them stackable again, straightening bent plungers, and much more.
🤝 Reliable Partners: Thanks to our partners @DSI & @MICRO MATIC, we have access to quality tools and ongoing training to guarantee efficient, long-lasting repairs.
🌍 Durable: In these times when kegs can run out, it’s crucial to extend the use of every keg. By repairing your drums, you contribute to a circular economy and waste reduction by extending the life of drums.

Product : TxA

Artificial intelligence for food safety
TxA is an artificial intelligence platform based on data activation, enabling dynamic, preventive and proactive microbiology management. It was initially developed by the TAAG laboratory to facilitate their own activity, thus explaining its relevance, interactivity and ease of use.

 

Innovation/New: TxA is a 3-in-1 software package that includes a mobile application for digital sampling (TxA APP) and two internet platforms, TxA Lab and TxA QA, for managing laboratory activity and quality assurance respectively:

  • TxA APP digitizes the production environment. After defining a sampling point and entering the relevant microbiological data, TxA APP predicts other potential contamination points to be monitored and sampled:
  • TxA Lab manages laboratory activity by classifying all results, whatever they may be. When used in conjunction with TAAG’s PCR kits for microbiological testing, TxA Lab automatically interprets analyses.
  • TxA QA optimizes quality control, by analyzing all laboratory data, compiling statistics, managing risks, proposing corrective actions…

2024 : 4rd edition of the BRASSINOV® Contest

16 exhibitors participated in the competition during the Salon du Brasseur

4 of them received awards at the BRASSINOV® Competition prize-giving ceremony following the inauguration on Thursday October 17, 2024 at the Parc Expo in Nancy:

  • SOOFÛT for its stainless steel drum washing, rental and maintenance services. Soofût provides craft breweries with washing, rental and maintenance services for reusable stainless steel kegs;
  • Fermentis for SafSour™ Barrel Instinct & SafSour™ Fruit Intuition. Safsour™ Fruit Intuition and Safsour™Barrel Instinct are blends of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Brettanomyces Bruxellensis, Lactobacillus and Pedioccoccus in dry form. They have been created to produce complex, mixed-fermentation acid beers;
  • CO2 BRASSERIE for Micro CO2 Box, an automated system enabling users to measure and monitor CO2 quality online;
  • LANXESS for Nagardo®, a natural antimicrobial obtained from the edible Sweet Osmanthus Ear mushroom and extracted without chemical modification.

This year, two other candidates attracted the jury’s attention:

  • OMNIA TECHNOLOGIES – BRAND and its Libero Beer product, a membrane system specifically designed to separate alcohol from standard beer.
  • Imprimerie COSTE with the addition of ESSENTIAL TEXTS IN BRAILLE, offering two techniques: embossing or silkscreen swelling varnish, the choice depending on the design and paper substrate.

2023 : 3rd edition of the BRASSINOV® Contest

12 exhibitors participated in the competition during the Salon du Brasseur​​

4 of them were rewarded at the BRASSINOV® Trophy awards ceremony at the end of the inauguration on Friday October 20, 2023 at the Parc Expo in Nancy:

  • EQUILABO for ETHOS X2.0. With SFME microwave hydrodistillation, the brewery extracts its own essential oils, dry or fresh hops, and other aromatic botanicals. Injecting the oils after the whirlpool, before or after fermentation, or even during packaging, reduces losses and shortens process times;
  • EZS EASY SOLUTIONS for FILLITRON. Monobloc (rinser, filler and capper) for glass bottles, aluminum bottles and cans, with minimal changeover time (20 min) (1,300 bph in 33cL, minimal oxygen intake and beer loss). Filling is volumetric (flowmeter by tap) and with double pre-evacuation. Washable with foam gun;
  • LES MALTIERS (BOORTMALT) for Infusion Malt is a low-carbon barley malt. The malt is infused with various plants and spices. It enables the brewer to develop a range of different beers without adding flavoring or spices;
  • TINAFLEX for the FlexBOT© natural PP-H stopper with aeration system. Simply rinse the hose with clean water. The hose can be reused in full compliance with current standards. This plug extends hose life.

2022: 2nd edition of the BRASSINOV® Contest

19 exhibitors participated in the Brassinov competition during the Salon du Brasseur​

4 of them were rewarded during the BRASSINOV® Contest award ceremony at the end of the inauguration on Friday 21 October 2022 at the Parc Expo in Nancy:

  • MALT’IN POTT for its smoked and roasted malts made with a roaster (with a capacity of 200kg) and a smoker (with a capacity of 120kg). These small tools allow the creation of numerous taste combinations;
  • NOMOQ AG for its “No Minimum Order Quantity” printing technology allowing to print aluminum cans without minimum order quantity thanks to a printing technology new in Europe, which allows an infinite variety of colors and patterns;
  • NEW DRINK SYSTEM for its portable Beer Up filler for craft beer adapted to a 5 liter stainless steel keg;
  • AUTAJON ETIQUETTES for its eco-designed labels made with a random printing technique in 1 black only and barley waste, recycled fibers and virgin wood pulp as raw materials.

This year, the jury had a crush on BARANGÉ and its low stools made of recycled corks!

2021: 1st edition of the BRASSINOV® Contest

17 exhibitors participated in the Brassinov competition during the Salon du Brasseur

3 of them were rewarded during the BRASSINOV® Trophy award ceremony at the end of the inauguration on Friday, October 22, 2021 at 11:00 am at the Parc Expo in Nancy :

  • Trophy « Optimisation des procédés et équipements » awarded to ARCOS for their Zephytec dehydrator ensuring the transfer of technology between sectors and presented as an example of industrial ecology;
  • Trophy « Service et process » awarded to LALLEMAND for The Brew Farmhouse™; a hybrid Saison beer yeast that does not metabolize dextrins
  • Trophy « Différenciation commerciale et emballage » awarded to Imprimerie LOOS for their adaptation to very small series of a recyclable can consolidator.