BARREL AGED BEER

The tradition of ageing beer in barrels is not a new one and originates from Belgium in lambic beers, since then there are many breweries who have developed new flavor combinations from ageing their beer in barrels.

Barrel ageing comes with its own challenges with small batch processing and disinfecting and maintaining an aseptic environment in the barrel being a major challenge, resulting in a high incidence of infection and pathogens.

Brewshield-Barrel Aged provides a simple and commercial scale solution to imparting barrel character to your beer, whilst being natural and organic.

Beers with higher alcohol contents and stronger flavors are generally considered best candidates for barrel aged beer, these are types of beer that can stand up to, and not be dominated by typical barrel flavors. Examples of these typical types of beers considered suitable are Imperial Stouts, Dubbels, or strong ales.

Brewshield-Barrel Aged is simple to add as it is in liquid form, it is added in limited quantities in the bright tank and can be dosed in increments until the brewer is happy with the overall profile of the finished product.

The brewer can expect Brewshield-Barrel Aged to impart notes of wood, vanilla and aromatic compounds with an added mid-palate richness.

Stoak’s extracts are all in highly concentrated liquid form, this has major benefits for our clients as it means simple addition with no mixing, preparation, mess or fuss. The extract goes to work immediately as it engages with the product immediately on a molecular level allowing for rapid and predictable integration.

There are no risks of scalping normally associated with powders, no need for lengthly circulation associated with solids and no requirement for post-addition filtration, simply add, pump through and allow our extract to do its work.

All of our products are certified organic and registered as GRAS (Generally recognised as safe), they fall under the harmless colouring, flavoring and blending materials category and are suitable for use in a wide variety of food and beverage products.

Being organic registered means you have the piece of mind that our products are safe for use in your products whilst ensuring that we are compliant with any organic certification you have or are applying for.

Stoak products carry additional certifications including Non-Allergen, Non-GMO, Kosher, Heavy metal and pesticide free, Kosher, Halal and more.

Stoak regularly engages with its clients to assess and test the unique requirements of their product development teams. This involves product formulation, extract variant analysis as well as product application testing.

We have trail protocols, white papers and programs setup to undertake full evaluation and testing to provide proof of concept and stability analysis with our clients. In all cases we work hand in hand with the client developing the right mix of ingredients for use in their products.