At BBT Consultancy, our team of experts brings a wealth of knowledge and experience across various domains in the beverage industry.

Our comprehensive services are designed to address your unique challenges and enhance your operations.

Below, you’ll find an overview of our key service areas..

Filtration

Clarifying your beer, wine, vegetable oil, sugar syrup, or other beverages requires specialized skills. We excel in providing:

Filtration Optimisation:

Achieve cost savings and improve process efficiency.

Filtration Problems:

Get short-term and long-term support for filtration issues.

Beer/Beverage Stabilisation Optimisation:

Enhance your stabilisation processes.

Operator Training:

Improve understanding and management of filtration operations.

Start-Up Filtration Operations:

Support the development, installation, and operation of new filtration systems.

We offer both one-off training sessions and ongoing support to ensure your filtration systems are operating optimally. Contact us at [email protected] to discuss your needs.

Food Safety

Our extensive experience across the drinks industry positions us to offer a wide range of Quality and Food Safety services, including:

Quality Management System design and implementation.

Food Safety Management System design and implementation.

HACCP plan development and training.

Pre-certification assessments for ISO9001, ISO22000, ISO/TS 22002-1, and GFSI standards.

Food Safety risk due diligence and data interpretation.

Root-cause problem solving for quality and food safety issues.

Product recall and emergency preparedness processes.

Crisis management simulation exercises.

Flavour problem diagnosis and resolution.

Food fraud (VACCP) and food threat (TACCP) assessments.

Product sensory assessment program design.

We can provide tailored support for your Quality and Food Safety needs. Contact us at [email protected] to learn more.

Extract Cycle

Brewhouse efficiencies ensues that you are making the most out of your raw materials.

As crops change from year to year, new processing technologies become available, and we look to make products more sustainable ensuring that your brewhouse is running optimally is something we can help with.

We can offer the following services:

Brewhouse Efficiency:

Comprehensive assessments to deliver cost savings and optimal efficiency.

Mash Conversion:

Optimisation through temperature manipulation, grist/liquor ratio, and enzymatic treatment.

Lauter Tun Optimisation:

Effective run-off and sparging regimes to minimise extract loss.

Kettle Optimisation:

Correct heating regimes to reduce losses, drive off off-flavours, and ensure proper colour and hop utilisation.

We can help ensure your brewhouse is running optimally. Contact us at [email protected] for more information.

Yeast and Fermentation

The driving force of fermentation, yeast, requires managing, so that when it is
pitched it is in the optimal condition ensuring that your first-generation fermentation is
the same as the last. The following list gives an overview of a selection of our yeast
services:

Lab and brewery yeast propagation optimisation

Fermentation optimisation

using the right nutrients at the correct concentration ensures that the fermentation are successful

Standardisation of fermentation flavour development

Yeast strain selection and yeast supply

VDK stand optimisation

Molecular biology

PCR, whole genome sequencing, phenotype and genotype analysis

Yeast projects

We are set-up to facilitate any kind of yeast project, from
strain development, to GMO and yeast breeding as well as bioinformatics

With the yeast and fermentation platform we can provide one off training and
problem solving as well, or can be an ongoing resource. Please contact us at
[email protected] to discuss.

Microbiology and Hygiene

As a group we have lots of experience in driving microbiology KPIs in beverage manufacturing.

Our multifaceted approach to microbiology has delivered sustained micro performance and has provided the necessary step change needed when manufacturing sites transition from alcohol production to making non-alcoholic products.

The following gives an overview of our microbiology services:

Manufacturing Microbiology

A detailed assessment of the microbiology within your beverage manufacturing plant will identify areas where there are potential room for improvement or confirm that your microbiology is where it should be.

Microbiology Sample Plan

we can provide a detailed microbiology sample plan that covers all manufacturing process so that your product remains true to type and meets your required QA and QC program.

Microbiology Training

We can deliver brewing and beverage manufacturing training, so that your microbiologists are equipped to deliver the right results removing the ambiguity of sampling error, contamination identification error and media selection.

Holistic Microbiology

Assessment of microbiology allows you to determine areas of concerns. By approaching microbiology holistically through good CIP practice, water management and representative microbiology analysis, microbiology performance can be improved and sustained.
We have experience managing microbiology requirements across multiple sites, we can provide the same ongoing resource or are happy to engage with one off projects. Please contact us at [email protected] to discuss.

New Product Development

New product development is not just about creating a new liquid, it is about ensuring that the liquid can be made effectively within the plant, or someone else’s plant if required.

The team has developed numerous new products with a number of these products redefining and creating new beverage categories.

The team has expertise in both beer and formulated alcoholic and non-alcoholic products.

We can offer the following support but please contact us to discuss your project and see how we can help:

Product Development

We can help bring your concept to fruition. Many of the team members have been involved in numerous NPD products, from designing the product to running it down a line; be it yours’s or a third party operation line.

Product Safety

We can ensure that your product and method of manufacturing won’t make people ill.

Product Spoilage

When a product spoils it negatively impacts your brand. We have the knowledge and skills to prevent this happening.

Method of Manufacturing

The team has lots of experience, developing methods of manufacturing. We can take your bench-top idea and ensure that it can be produced at scale.
We can help with any part of NPD from initial concept to commercialization.

We can also troubleshoot and determine if present methods of manufacturing are suitable or not and help with COGS reduction as well.

Please contact us at [email protected] to discuss.

Don’t Panic.. When issues arise, we are here to help. Our team can assist with:

Managing Potential Recalls.

Identifying and resolving manufacturing issues

Auditing processes to prevent future problems.

All inquiries are treated with the utmost confidentiality. Whether you need immediate assistance or want to future-proof your processes,