Natural integrated solutions for craft brewing

FOR THE growing craft beer industry, Doehler offers a diverse range of products, from cost-effective solutions for microbiological quality control to natural ingredients for innovative beer mix ideas.

Doehler has an extensive range of natural colors, coloring concentrates and natural color extracts from pure white and bright yellow to warm orange and shining red tones, all the way to the new green and blue nuances.

Beer mixes with juice content have become a strong trend all over the world. But not every juice concentrate is suited for beer mixes. Mixing conventional juice concentrates with beer can cause precipitation and sedimentation, thus creating a visual impairment to the end product. Through intensive research and development, Doehler has developed a range of clear fruit juice concentrates designed specifically for beer mixes. A stable color/consistency and no sedimentation are the main characteristics of this particular range.

The company's products for beer mixes are tailored to their target groups: from natural shandies with and without fruit juice to flavored beers with chipotle or whiskey flavor.

Doehler Brewers QCheck® Kit

Under the Doehler Microsafety Design® (DMD®) brand, Doehler offers ready-to-use media for the cultural detection of microorganisms in many applications for the beverage industry. The innovative kit contains everything needed to microbiologically control and ensure the safety of the entire brewing process all the way to filling. The culture media allows analyzing all raw materials as well as production and dispensing units without expert knowledge or expensive laboratory equipment. The culture media in the Brewers QCheck® Kit are safe and easy to use: a clear color change indicates whether harmful microorganisms are present. The Brewers QCheck® Kit requires absolutely no preliminary work and can be used immediately.

The Brewers QCheck® Kit consists of three different culture media: LMC concentrate, NBB®-B and NBB®-B-Am tubes. Critical indicator microorganisms can be immediately and reliably detected, for example, in water analysis with LMC concentrate. With the ready-to-use NBB®-B tubes, it is possible to detect beer spoiling microorganisms Lactobacilli, Pediococci, Pectinatus and Megasphaera in yeast as well as in clear and yeast-turbid beer. NBB®-B-Am tubes ensure reliable hygiene recording in production, filling and dispensing units. An illustrated and detailed manual ensures easy and accurate kit usage.

Cereal and malt ingredients for greater efficiency in breweries

Cereal and malt ingredients are characterized by distinct taste profiles and are valuable nutritional building blocks for foods and beverages. Doehler is presenting an extensive portfolio of cereal and malt ingredients that allow breweries in particular to organize their production processes in a much more efficient way at the Craft Brewers Convention (CBC) in Philadelphia. It is presenting a sour wort which allows breweries to produce premium beers in consistent quality easily. Doehler’s sour wort reduces the pH value of mash and wort 100 percent naturally and significantly increases the beer's drinkability and taste stability. In addition to the use of Doehler's sour wort in producing alcoholic beers for quality and process optimization, there are diverse potential applications: In non-alcoholic beers, Doehler's sour wort ensures a fresh and full taste thanks to its healthy ingredients. Due to the natural, healthy ingredients, as well as the refreshing taste profile, sour wort opens up unique inspirations for a completely new generation of soft drinks.

Opportunities for creating new beer variations

The range of premium wort concentrates from Doehler offers brewers more opportunities to make new beer variations. In addition to simplifying the beer preparation process, these concentrates allow for a fast and reliable production of great-tasting premium and special beers. Doehler's wort concentrates are specifically tailored to the needs of the modern brewing process and display comparable properties to those of conventionally-produced wort. Thanks to the use of diverse raw materials such as wheat or barley malt and the use of a variety of process technologies, the wort concentrates can be implemented for numerous purposes in beer production. With the help of Doehler's wort concentrates, the brewing capacity can be increased without cost-intensive investments, and a wide range of beer types can be brewed with minimal effort.

Doehler will be in Philadelphia (USA) from May 3-6 for the Craft Brewers Conference.