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Anyone read about the Industry City process?

gixxerpilot750
edited January 2016 in General

I was recently reading about how a person might computer control the distillation process and came across something that I don't think has been posted here.
It seems to be a different process including both continuous fermentation and distillation and also very modular with lots of glass and stainless porn. I thought the process might be of interest to everyone here so I'm posting it. If I am out of line for posting links, my apologies.

Industry City Distillery - Making Industry Standard

After Cooper: Industry City Distillery

Brooklyn Distillery Packs DIY Distillation Equipment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXD0_Gjptvs

The great Brooklyn vodka experiment

How the Yeast/Alginate Beads are made:

Ever wonder how we make the yeast beads for our... at Vodka Science

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  • BearRiverBearRiver

    I remember when that video first came out. The whole concept of doing away with batch fermentation is mind blowing IMO.

    Great video, it was worth another watch.

  • jacksonbrown

    "Vodka as hard to make" =))

    24 mins of spank. All the skill there revolves around marketing as far as I'm concerned.

  • DocPorter

    Large fuel ethanol plants do continuous fermentation all the time. They use pervaporation memberanes that extracts the ethanol from fermentation tanks which are consistently feed with a supply of wash and new yeast while discharging spent solids/yeast.

    Essentially what these guys have made is a plug flow reactor.

    Still interesting... but is it necessary?

  • FullySilenced
    edited January 2016

    Plug flow reactor is something new for me but here is a good overview:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOxqN18sA04&t=20

    Article about yeast using beads and other media:
    Continuous ethanol production using immobilized yeast cells entrapped in loofa-reinforced alginate carriers

  • jacksonbrown
    edited January 2016

    So physical plugs, using pigs to create a continuous batch system? Or is that just how the guy in the vid is explaining it.
    More like a septic tank?
    It sounds like they're having heaps of fun farting around but I think these guys have just been watching too much Heston or el bulli.
    Using spherification to encapsulate yeast sounds impressive but I'd bet a nut that most of their fermentation happens outside those spheres.
    I think I'll trial a new type of packing material made out of stem cells. I'm pretty sure it'll cure AIDS and ADHD but I don't want to make too many promises at this stage.

  • grim
    edited January 2016

    Not sure what real benefits continuous fermentation offers when done on a small scale., especially when the end-to-end process is not executed in a similar manner. I know little about the process, but I'll wager a guess that it comes with some real-world negatives that need to be weighed against the potential positives. Also, what scale is necessary to realize the benefits on a material scale? I'll wager a second guess there that the scale needs to be somewhat large, and I'm not talking craft large.

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