FRESH HOP SEASON! 💚 The harvest is underway, and hops are being picked from their bines and rushed to breweries around NZ; dunked straight into wort while still green, making unique Fresh Hop Beers. We've been sending fresh yeast out to breweries making these special brews, including this #SPECTRA Hazy yeast to our mates at @doublevisionbrewing 🙌
Cheers! Looking forward to tasting them. ✅
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#freshhops #freshhopseason #hopharvest #itstheyeastwecando
It turns out, Hunterville is a pretty funky place. Home to the first-ever commercial brewer’s yeast isolated from the New Zealand wilderness — that goes by the name of WILDING.
A pursuit years in the making, exploring bush and forest all over NZ. Froth Technologies found it, captured it, isolated it, nurtured it, and named it with the help of Steph Coutts. Finally it was sent down to Emerson's for its self-titled, debut brew made with 100% NZ ingredients. A funky, fruity farmhouse ale, with a hint of spice, light malt, and a subtle hoppy finish. "Having something like this that's completely unique and different is pretty exciting." says Emerson's head brewer, Mason Pratt. 🍺
🎥 video by Chris Cooke
#frothtech #drinkscience #wildingyeast #wildingbeer #emersonsbrewerynz #emersonsbrewerydunedin #emersonsbrewery
😎 NEW Collab Brew with @panheadcustomales + @hopproductsaustralia + @frothtech 🤝 This experimental IPA combines our new Hazy yeast strain #SPECTRA with HPA's Galaxy variety of #Spectrum hop oil. The Spectrum hop oil contributes to a clean resinous hop profile with gripping aromatics, while the Spectra yeast throws in a fruity ester profile and a med-dry quenching finish. This 6% abv IPA prototype is available on tap this week for a limited time at Panhead venue's, and may appear at a few other local joints. Grab yourself a taste, we'd love to hear your feedback. 🍺 💚
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#frothtech #itstheyeastwecando #collabbeer #panheadcustomales #experimentalbeer #nzyeast #yeastlab #hopproductsaustralia #hopsfromaustralia #aussiehops #galaxyhops #hopoil
Congratulations to our awesome brewery partner: @mountbrewingco.brewery - winners of the 16th Annual West Coast IPA Challenge! This comp hosted by @malthousenz and @forkandbrewer judges 32 #WCIPA entries from breweries all over NZ. The winning beer 'Point Break' was brewed with our BUDDY American Ale yeast 🏆
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1st | Mount Brewing Co. Brewery Point Break
2nd | Brave Brewing Co. @bravebrewingco
3rd | Two Thumb Brewing Co @twothumbbrewingco
🤲 People's Choice: @epicbeer
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#proudyeastdads #wcipachallenge #nzingredients #nzcraftbeer #madeinnz #freshisbest #drinklocalbeer #itstheyeastwecando
Three years ago we first launched production here at Froth Technologies urban yeast farm in Lower Hutt, NZ. Simon & Ryan went all-in on this brand new business with a vision to help Kiwi breweries make quality, local, and sustainable craft beer. The curveballs thrown by a global pandemic have made the mission challenging, but with the help & support of friends, whānau and industry...we are stoked to be celebrating this 3rd anniversary milestone. Thank you all! We have some exciting plans in the works for this coming year, and some radical beer collabs releasing in the coming months. #staytuned 🥳🍺🔬
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#3yearsago #happybirthday #itstheyeastwecando #nzingredients #nzcraftbeer #nzbrewery #madeinnz #frothing #drinkscience #craftbeerlife #craftbrewery #yeastlab #beerscience
Congratulations to all the breweries that placed in the @newworldnz Top 30 Beer & Cider awards! 🥳🍺 with ober 700+ entries, we're feeling so proud to see many of our brewery customers in the Top 30 lineup and Highly Commended. One in four winners brewed with @frothtech yeast feels pretty good! We just really love to help breweries make outstanding beer. 💖
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💪Shout-out to the brew crews at:
@urbanautbrewing @baylandsbrewery @doublevisionbrewing @shiningpeakbrewing @threesistersbrewery @deepcreekbrewingco @sawmillbrewing @emersonsbrewery @heydaybeerco @mountbrewingco.brewery
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#itstheyeastwecando #newworldtop30 #frothing #freshisbest #localingredients #madeinnz #nzcraftbeer #nzbrewery
Mauri Ora whānau! Happy New Year from the crew at Froth Tech. 🧡 Thank you for your support in 2022, and a big cheers to the 60+ awesome breweries choosing our NZ raised brewing yeast to ferment their crafty brews. We're sending our fresh yeast as far South as Invercargill, as far North as Kerikeri, and every region in between - even Aotea / Great Barrier Island! We're back open this week, and looking forward to a fruitful & frothy 2023. Arohanui.
#brewlocal #drinklocalbeer #tastenature #drinkscience #brewzealand
SOLAR POWERED YEAST! 🌞😎
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Check out our brand new 13kW solar rig, just installed on the roof of our yeast lab in Lower Hutt. This array will supply around 50% of our power needs, with the rest being covered with 100% renewable electricity from @ecotricity_nz 💚 Ngā mihi to Poutama Trust & Puna Pakihi for the support.
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✅ Solar power
✅ 100% renewable
✅ Climate Positive (120% | Biz Ops) @ekosaotearoa
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#solarpower #solarpanels #renewableenergy #nzingredients #nzcraftbeer #itstheyeastwecando
😲 Check out our new collab brew with the crew at Double Vision Brewing!
🤝 Frothin’ is an India Pale Lager (IPL), brewed in collaboration with our mates at Double Vision Brewing in Miramar, Wgtn. This IPL marries together the hop-forward character of an IPA with the crisp fermentation profile of a Lager, and was made with 100% Aotearoa ingredients. 👌
🔬Cold-fermented using Froth Technologies #lager #yeast: Krisp | FT50 and boldly dry-hopped for maximum aroma.
🍃 We also experimented with a new #cold dry-hopping technique. Research suggests that cold and brief dry-hopping can actually extract more of the desirable flavour compounds (fruity, citrus) and less of the undesirable ones (vegetal, grassy). Because of reduced exposure time, but equal or greater flavour extraction, the desirable fruity compounds are less likely to be masked by the greener flavour compounds, which get drawn out of the hops over prolonged warm exposure.
🍻 Head over to doublevisionbrewing.com and try it for yourself!
#collabbrew #nzcraftbeer #craftbeercapital #nzingredients #drinklocalbeer
🕺Fresh NZ yeast being packaged at the @frothtech yeast farm today. 150+ Trillion little buddies ready to go out to our 40+ brewery customers around NZ. It's awesome seeing more and more tasty beers brewed with 100% NZ ingredients!
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#water #malt #hops #yeast
#drinklocal #drinkscience #nzingredients
A cheeky new #collab beer on the way with our beer buddies at @doublevisionbrewing 🍺💚🔬 Can you guess what style we've brewed?
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#makelagernotwar #brewcrew #beerfriends #frothtech #drinkscience #doublevisionbrewing
😍 A HUGE congrats to our brewing customers that cleaned up in the Third Annual HAZY IPA comp at @heydaybeerco over the weekend! 🤯
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We're stoked our #VAPE hazy yeast went into the following winning brews:
🙌 2nd Place: @deepcreekbrewingco
🤟 3rd Place: @garageproject
👑 People's Choice: @waitoabeer
🤙 3rd People's Choice: @urbanautbrewing
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#freshisbest #buylocalnz #itstheyeastwecando #drinkscience #frothing #wellingtonnz #wellingtonbeer #nzcraftbeer #craftbrewery #hazecraze #hazyipa #neipa #yeastlab
🔬 SCIENCE 🔬
We're constantly looking to understand our yeast better.
Right now we're investigating how each strain's performance changes over its shelf life, once it has been packaged.
We do this by regularly monitoring:
🔬 Viability: how many cells are living/dead,
🔬 Vitality: Cell health measured by acidification power, and
🔬 Attenuation: the degree to which yeast ferments wort
Look at those flasks swirl 😍
#craftbeer #yeast #stayfrothy #science
🤖 Yeast rave! Here we have our English Ale strain: FT20 BISCUIT, dancing around like crazy in one of our propagation vessels. English ale strains are known for being very flocculant, which means they group together tightly in clusters, hence the clumpy families zooming around together inside the tank.
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#beerscience #yeastlab #frothtech #drinkscience #propagation
Froth Technologies Launch Party
Check out our Launch Party highlights video! <3 As part of the Road to Beervana we hosted friends, whānau, brewers, and industry representatives at HUSK bar in Wellington to officialy launch Froth Technologies, and to taste the first four Froth-fermented beers from Garage Project, Eagle Brewing NZ, Funk Estate and Choice Bros Brewing. Thanks for watching! Video by the amazing: Ezra McDonald
Garage Project #yeastdelivery!
Garage Project #yeastdelivery! 👼
A fresh jug of our hazy strain: FT02 VAPE, hand-delivered to the brew team & ready to go in to Fresh SEP (their monthly Fresh IPA). You'll be able to try this brew from Sep 1st through GP outlets. Visual effects assistance from brewer Josh on his vaporizer 😂 🌬
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#freshyeast #freshbeer #freshSEP #frothing #drinkscience #wellingtonnz #arostreet
Look at that swirl motion 😍 Yeast can be pretty 🤓
