Company overview – 2010

Introduction to Cara

Technology

Our mission is to be a world-leading company developing, manufacturing and supplying products and services for brewers

Who are we?Independent,

ISO9001-accredited company

Specialized, skilled, multi-lingual staff

Operations in Leatherhead,

UK and Copenhagen,

Denmark

In business since 1995,

Danish operation

since 1891

What are we good at?

Helping breweries prevent and solve process problems

Helping breweries develop a detailed

understanding of their products and

processes

Developing new and improved beers and processes to make

them

Reducing production costs without

compromising quality

Reducing process risk

Who do we work for?

Several of the World’s Top 20 brewery groups and many successful regional breweries

throughout the world

Locations include South, Central and North

America; Caribbean, Russia and the Baltics; Europe; East, West and

South Africa; Asia, Australasia

Operate at all levels from plant to Boardroom

What sorts of things do we do? Process consultancy, auditing and

troubleshooting New product and process development Development and implementation of process

problem solving toolkits (including software) Secure brewing yeast storage, analysis, and re-

selection Regular yeast supply

Our Leatherhead facility Located near London, UK Facilities include well-

equipped yeast laboratories, microbiological testing laboratories, gene testing laboratory, flavour chemistry laboratories, taste room

Our Copenhagen facility Located in Central Copenhagen,

Denmark Facilities include well-equipped yeast

storage facility, yeast dried yeast culture production plant, liquid yeast production laboratory, yeast testing laboratory

Facility founded by Alfred Jorgensen in 1891

Been supplying breweries with pure culture yeast for 116 years

Purchased by Cara Technology in 2009

Example projects - brewhouse Re-design of mashing profiles to reduce

operating costs, increase production capacity and improve product quality

Re-design of brewhouse processes to reduce energy consumption without compromising quality or incurring capital expenditure

Re-design of brewhouse processes to eliminate the use of added enzymes

Optimization of adjunct usage strategies Control of extract loss

Example projects - yeast Design and implementation of state-of-

the-art yeast supply programmes Specifications and critical control points

for brewery yeast management Sourcing, screening and supply of

alcohol-tolerant yeast for production at very high gravities (25OP+)

Re-selection of customer yeast cultures to improve brewery performance and increase alcohol yield

Example projects - fermentation

Improvement of the alcohol yield from high gravity fermentations

Troubleshooting of attenuation problems in fermentation

Solving flocculation problems Optimization of yeast cropping and scrapping

strategies to improve beer quality Implementation of improved yeast

propagation techniques

Example projects - filtration Troubleshooting of primary filtration

problems (filtrate quality, throughput, run length)

Troubleshooting of sterile filtration problems (microbiological quality, throughput, run length)

Assistance with implementation of next generation (kieselguhr-free) filtration systems

Example projects – packaging Evaluation of new packaging materials

to comply with Government (FDA) Protocols

Troubleshooting of microbiological spoilage outbreaks in can, bottle and keg (yeast, lactics, Pectinatus, Megasphaera)

Re-design of packaging operations (with laboratory support) to reduce the risk of spoilage outbreaks

Example projects –beer flavour Optimization of brewhouse and

fermentation procedures to improve beer ester profiles

Troubleshooting of excessive SO2 production during fermentation

Minimization of H2S concentrations in beer

Optimization of diacetyl management – lowest diacetyl concentration in the shortest time

Troubleshooting of off-flavours and taints Evaluation of the flavour and quality of

brewery beers or random market samples

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Bitter

Carbonation

Astringent

Sweet

DMS

Sour

After-bitter

Spicy kettle hop

Grainy

Isoamyl acetate

Malty

Solvent alcoholic

Ethyl hexanoate

Example projects – beer flavour stability Identification of critical points in

the production and supply chain for improvement of beer flavour stability

Beer flavour stability process improvement audits

Optimization of beer flavour stability through improvements in:

brewhouse processes fermentation processes maturation and filtration processes packaging processes supply chain management

Example projects –beer appearance Identification of the critical points in

the production and supply chain for improvement of beer colloidal stability

Troubleshooting of haze and sediment issues – identification of haze or sediment material, causes, and solutions to problems

Troubleshooting of foam quality problems

Example projects – NPD Design and development of

various beers including premium lagers, ales, stouts, wheat beers and alcoholic fruit beverages

Design and development of low alcohol beers that can be produced without the need for capital expenditure

Design and development of processes for production of light-stable beers

Our yeast collection Largest collection of production

brewing yeasts in the world Almost 850 yeast strains (mostly

lager yeast, though some ale and wheat beer yeasts)

All stored in liquid nitrogen at -196OC

Continuously supplied to breweries for almost 130 years

Our yeast collection Detailed fermentation information available

on about 200 of the strains Strain key describes important properties

Yeast culture supply We can supply yeast cultures in

the form of: Slopes (slants) Liquid cultures Dried yeast (50 g)

All cultures are quality assured prior to dispatch Cell- and colony-morphology Carbohydrate utilization Growth temperature PAD gene activity Flocculation Multiplex PCR DNA fingerprinting Checks for contaminant

microorganisms

Typical supply contract Yeast supplied six times per year - typically four

slopes per brewery per shipment - 24 slopes per brewery per year

All cultures are quality assured prior to dispatch Only cultures which have passed all QA tests are

released to brewery customers Different shipping options available, including

worldwide refrigerated transport Phytosanitary Certificates and Certificates of

Origin are available on request Choice of supplying one of our proprietary

yeasts, or storage and supply of your own proprietary yeast

Summary

We provide specialized services for people who know why they matter

We have an experienced team and well-equipped labs in UK and Denmark, backed up by a great network of specialist labs and consultants

We have the world’s largest collection of brewing yeast strains at our disposal and a meticulous approach to yeast management

All our operations are accredited to ISO9001:2008

Contact detailsCara Technology Limited

Leatherhead Enterprise Centre

Randalls Road

Leatherhead

Surrey

KT22 7RY

UK

Tel +44 1372 822218

www.cara-online.com