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Artisan Food Processing

The rise and rise of Artisan

ACORN Conference & Trade Show November 24, 2015

Presenters: Ed Charter, BioFoodTech

Mike Beamish, Deep Roots Distillery Reid Barnett, Quannessence Skincare

Jeff McCourt, Glasgow Glen Farm

Outline

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• Overview of BioFoodTech

• Artisan Craft Foods Trend

• Support to develop your artisan business

• Success Stories: - Beamish Orchard & Deep Roots Distillery - Quannessence - Glasgow Glen Farm

BIO|FOOD|TECH• Established 1987 • Technical Support for Industry

– Food, Bioscience, Laboratories • 25 highly qualified staff

– Food scientists/technologists – Microbiologists – Engineers – Five industrial-strength PhDs

• Processing facilities • Several registrations (ISO, CFIA, …)

Three Integrated Divisions• Food Technology

• Bioscience Technology

• Lab Services

Concept to Pilot to Market• Turn concept ideas into prototypes in

product development lab • Process scale-up - in pilot plant (small to

large scale equipment) • Manufacture in pilot plant for market

Why on earth would you want to process my food!?!

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Benefits of processing

Benefits for the consumer: • Convenience • Longer shelf life and food safety • Variety • Maintain nutrition and quality

Benefits for the processor • Distribution to further markets (time and distance) • Food safety, especially for larger volume suppliers • Spreading out handling and processing beyond harvest • Use of good quality culls • Enhanced/released nutrients (e.g. fermentation)

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Processing: fermenting foods

• Improving intestinal tract health • Enhancing the immune system, synthesizing and

enhancing the bioavailability of nutrients • Reducing symptoms of lactose intolerance,

decreasing the prevalence of allergy in susceptible individuals

• Reducing risk of certain cancers from: Parvez, S., et al. Probiotics and their fermented food products are

beneficial for health. Journal of Applied Microbiology 100 (2006) 1171–1185

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Benefits of Probiotics

Artisan Craft Processing

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Artisan Food What differentiates it?

• An Artisan is “one that produces something in limited quantities often using traditional methods.”

• The Hartman Group suggests asking 3 questions: • Does a real person craft this

product with care? • Is it made by hand, in small

batches or limited quantities using specialty ingredients?

• Does it reflect expertise, tradition, passion, a process?

• Specialty foods” stats: – Specialty food industry in

Canada grew at a faster rate than overall retail

– 2009, specialty store sales increased 35% from 2004 to 2009

– 2010, over 1,500 new specialty food products launched in U.S. with the market value $63 billion

Artisan Example – Craft Brewing

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• Historically, many craft breweries, but most disappeared around prohibition

• 1979 – President Jimmy Carter deregulates the beer market • 1982 – Grant’s Brewery Pub opens in Yakima, WA

• 1986 – Fifth brewpub opens in US

• 2012 – By June, there are 2075 regional craft breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs across US (numbers from Brewers Association)

Craft Brewery Density in US

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Artisan Distilling is also growing

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Traditional Balsamic Vinegar from Italy aged 8 years

Artisan Vinegar

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BIO|FOOD|TECH ‘Artisan’ Support

• Artisan Workshops – Fermented Foods* – Cheesemaking* – Fermented beverages – Distillation

• Site visits • Development Lab/Pilot plant • Supplier/equipment support • NRC/IRAP feasibility projects • Food Product Dev Fund

*upcoming 2016

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