This time, members of the LIFE-Brewery project have travelled to Amsterdam to meet with Heineken (www.heineken.com). During the meeting the representatives of Heineken presented an overview of the company, with a special emphasis on its strategy of sustainability towards zero waste. The representatives of the LIFE-Brewery presented the main lines of the project as well […]
In the framework of the meetings that the members of the project are carring out with the different stakeholders related to the LIFE-Brewery project, AZTI members have met with CULMAR, and aquaculture producer from Spain (cultivo-marinos.com) that are dedicated to the aquaculture of sea bream and sea bass During the meeting, the current status of […]
We continue with the presentation and contrast of the LIFE-Brewery project with the different stakeholders of this project. On this occasion, members of AZTI have met with Susana Rodriguez, quality director of Estrella Galicia (estrellagalicia.es). During this meeting, the progress of the project has been presented and some points of interest for the brewing industry […]
This week members of AZTI will be on XVII National Aquaculture Congress (#XVIICNA, Spanish Aquaculture Congress) presenting the talk “New sustainable ingredients for aquaculture feed: yeast and bagasse from the brewing industry” issued from this project. Cartagena is the city that will host the XVII National Aquaculture Congress that the Spanish Aquaculture Society (SEA) will organise […]
● AZTI leads an European project that investigates the use of waste generated in the production of beer to be used as ingredients in the production of the feeds that make up the feed of the breeding fish ● The use of bagasse and yeast as substitutes for fishmeal boosts the sustainability of aquaculture activity […]
This time it was the turn of La Zaragozana in the list of visits planned to different brewers throughout the project. During the visit, we were able to exchange opinions with the brewing master of Ambar, the main commercial brand of La Zaragozana (www.ambar.com). We were also able to contrast the different aspects of the […]
On April the 3th, responsible for the Life Brewery project met with the Spanish beer sector to present the partial progress of the project. The different proposed solutions developed in the project, both for yeast and spent grain, were discussed and contrasted with representatives of the beer sector. To highlight the pleasant welcome by Consejo […]
Last week, the members of AZTI and Riera Nadeu were working on the scaling-up of the process of valorization of beer production byproducts, obtaining the various ingredients foreseen in the project. We also went to the IRTA facilities in San Carles de la Rapita to analyse the preliminary results of the digestibility tests of these […]
Last Thursday, the second monitoring meeting of the LIFE-BREWERY project was held in AZTI-Derio. The meeting was attended by all the project members (IRTA, Riera Nadeu, Brewers of Europe, LKS and AZTI) and all the progresses of the project were presented to the monitoring body of the LIFE program (NEEMO). Currently, the digestibility tests of […]
Today, 5th of March, the digestibility tests of the developed feed prototypes begin at IRTA’s facilities in San Carles de la Rápita (Tarragona). The main objective of these tests is to determine the optimal inclusion percentages of the developed ingredients in the aqua-feed prototypes. All these aqua-feeds will be tested over the 3 targeted species […]