Consistent FAN levels and stable fermentation
For optimal fermentation and beer quality, yeast needs sufficient Free Amino Nitrogen (FAN). With FAN-boosting enzymes, you achieve consistent fermentations.
Boost FAN levels
FAN is often used as an indicator for predicting healthy yeast growth, viability, vitality, and fermentation efficiency and ultimately, beer quality and stability.
Novonesis’ brewing enzymes help you boost FAN levels. This makes more nitrogen compounds available for your yeast to metabolize during fermentation.
By managing FAN levels with enzymes, you get more stable fermentations – even in high-barley or high-adjunct brewing.
Boost brewhouse capacity, avoid off-flavors
With Novonesis’ FAN boosting proteases, you can increase brewhouse capacity by accelerating the proteolysis, shortening the total mash-tun occupation time.
In addition, you'll benefit from improved mash filtration and higher extract yields – without compromising beer foam stability.
Case studies
From launching new beers to optimizing existing recipes and more, our customers have leveraged our solutions to stay ahead. Check out these success stories to explore how they've used our innovations to overcome challenges
New recipe reaps big benefits
By dramatically changing its recipe, an international brewer wanted to meet many challenges at once: less dependency on imported malt, using less energy, and boosting brewhouse capacity and sustainability claims.
Low-FAN malt in a high-FAN recipe
Constraints in providing sufficient FAN through malt caused challenges for an international brewer to brew its highly attenuated beers.
Better aroma, half the malt
This brewery invested in dealcoholization equipment, but were not satisfied with the resulting beer shelf-life or aroma. Read how this brewery optimized its existing dealcoholization process, improving beer shelf-life and aroma.
Fast and reliable acidification
A regional brewery found their process of microbial acidification for producing kettle sours was too slow. It was tying up the brew-kettle for several days, creating a bottleneck in the brewhouse.
Explore our solutions
- Ensure consistent fermentations
- FAN Generation
- Improve physical stability
- Manage flavor control
- Increased brewhouse capacity
- Avoid stale off-flavors
- Enhance sustainability claims
- Partial barley and/or undermodified malt brewing
- 100% adjunct brewing
- Ensure consistent fermentations
- FAN Generation
- Improve physical stability
- Manage flavor control
Other beer applications
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