Beer needs yeast, Froth needs you!
By Froth Technologies
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NZ $32,416 pledged
326 people pledged
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NZ $30,000 minimum target
This campaign was successful and closed on 12/09/2019 at 11:00 PM.
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Beer Needs Yeast, Froth Needs You!
Project 2019-06-18 23:21:17 +1200
Water, Malt, Hops... Yeast? 🔬
Until now, NZ brewers have had no local yeast options, and have been forced to use yeast imported from far away places. Froth Technologies is here to change that, by launching Aotearoa’s first commercial yeast lab! But we need your help...
12 months ago founders Simon and Ryan recognized a gap in the local beer industry. Having been part of the NZ craft beer scene for nearly a decade, the boys knew first hand the challenges associated with importing yeast from overseas.
Being a highly perishable product, liquid yeast requires expensive refrigerated air-freight, and is often not at its best by the time it gets here. There can also be timing and customs delays, with some overseas yeast labs no longer sending their product here due to these challenges.
With malt, hops, and water all world-renowned for their high quality, and able to be sourced locally, there was just one piece of the puzzle left to help take NZ’s brewing industry to the next level... NZ made yeast.
Yeast is a microorganism that is responsible for fermentation in beer, wine and cider and a major influencer of quality and flavour.
So the boys have spent the past year making sure a local yeast lab was something that professional and home brewers wanted, through market research, focus groups, and lengthy conversations with brewers.
Fast forward to now, and Froth Technologies has set up a lab in the heart of Wellington’s brewing district, we’ve made yeast for four awesome breweries, we’ve been published in a couple of beer magazines, and now we’re looking to grow our production capacity to meet the demands of the already frothing market.
😀 And that’s where you come in!
We need to raise a minimum of $30,000 so that we can purchase the production and technical equipment that we need to make enough yeast for everybody. Equipment like:
- A cryogenic freezer (to store our yeast at -80C and hold it in suspended animation)
- A laminar flow hood (to allow us to expand our sterile working area for higher thru-put)
- A 1000L propagation tank (to grow larger batches of yeast)
- Analytics tools (precision equipment for guaranteeing quality and providing lab services)
🌏 Sustainability
Froth Technologies is acutely aware of the challenges we and our planet face, and we believe that business can be a great mechanism for levering positive change.
Froth Technologies is an impact business that cares about our ecosystem and the earthlings that rely on it. So we’ve developed a carbon reduction strategy, and we are working towards becoming a Carbon Zero certified company.
We’ve also been busy innovating ways to make our packaging as low impact as possible. Thanks to some hard mahi and the help of a couple of other fantastic organisations we’ve produced these bottles to package our yeast in. They’re made from sugar cane and they sequester more than twice their weight in CO2 over the lifecycle of their production. We’ve also sourced these incredible insulative boxes for keeping our yeast cold during shipping. They’re made from 97% sustainable paper, they’re 95-97% recyclable in kerbside recycling, and their thermal performance is comparable to polystyrene.
🎁 Pledge Rewards
Rewards are expected to be delivered in October, once the campaign closes and the pledges are all paid. Yeast pitches will be delivered through Oct - Dec. Rewards are only available in NZ.
NZ Yeast Pledgers will be able to choose their strain(s) once the campaign has concluded.
Download our Yeast Menu [pdf]
👋 Our Team
RYAN CARVILLE
Co-founder / Left Brain
Ryan’s studies in Philosophy and Religious Studies were always going to lead him to yeast…. After years of homebrewing and volunteering at beer festivals, Ryan took up his first commercial brewing gig at Eagle Brewing in Christchurch (2015). There he handled all aspects of the brewing process and got to engage with punters and the industry, working at every major beer festival in the country. Now that he’s in Wellington he spends his days (when he’s not Frothing) in at the Wild Workshop for Garage Project making all kinds of barrelled, funky, sour and spontaneously fermented brews. It's the intersect between art and science in beer that really gets Ryan going. He's a lover flavours and fermentation, flora and fauna, and thrives on problem solving and coming up with ways to do things efficiently. 🔗Ryan's Linkedin
SIMON COOKE
Co-founder / Right Brain
Simon studied Graphic Design at Massey University in Wellington, where he founded the Massey University Brewing Society, and brewed his first commercial batch of beer (2012). The passion grew through teaching other students how to brew, and organising craft-focused events to engage them with the emergent beer scene. Simon then spent a couple of years overseas, brewing and exploring locations around Europe and Canada, and gaining a wider view of brewing knowledge. Following this he founded a contract brewing label, Kakariki Beer Co. to share his beer creations with a wider audience. More recently he’s been flexing his creativity and ideation in the startup scene, supporting social enterprises and impact businesses through graphic design, marketing, and events. 🔗Simon's Linkedin
🙌 Gratitude
Thank you to the Zero Carbon Challenge and everyone else that has contributed their time, expertise, resources, and support to this campaign. There are too many kind hearted humans & organisations to mention.
Campaign Video credit:
Camera & Director - Chris Cooke
Supplimentary Footage from Bryson Rooney (via Hāpi Research), also Gladfield Malt
Editing: Ezra McDonald
Post Production: Mikey Bucher
Comments
Updates 2
It's our FINAL DAY!
12/09/2019 at 2:10 PM
Kia ora koutou!
Wow what a ride the past 6 weeks has been! Thanks to your incredible support we have not only reached our minimum crowd funding goal of $30K, but we've blown through to a healthy $32,146 and climbing!
This support has help us look forward to our next steps for growth. We've been shopping around for a new site to call home, and obtaining incredibly detailed quotes on our lab-grade tanks and equipment in anticipation of the crowd funding coming through in the next week. We can't wait to start making more yeast! And we'll be sending out all the rewards once we receive all the pledge contributions, plus production / ordering time. We'll be sure to keep you updated!
So... our campaign closes TONIGHT at 11PM, and if you or anyone as frothy as you might still be wanting to grab one of our awesome rewards before we close, there's still time! If you're able to go the extra mile and post our PledgeMe link [pldg.me/froth] to your social media profile - that would be much appreciated, and would help us finish strong.
Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou, we are over the moon! #stayfrothy
Simon & Ryan
(the Froth boys)
First update from Froth Technologies...
03/08/2019 at 3:33 PM
It's been a spectacular first few days on our PledgeMe campaign, and we're pleased to let you know we're HALF WAY THERE! woo-hoo!! Thanks to all you incredible pledgers, we've now raised $15,682 towards our minimum goal of $30K. Here's Ryan with a quick update from the Froth lab. Thanks everyone! And remember to spread the word. -much love, the Froth Boys pldg.me/froth
Pledgers 326
01/08/2019 at 8:45pm
"Go Boys fantastic idea keep in in NZ. W&D. "
01/08/2019 at 8:43pm
"Wishing you success in your new venture. Willy & Debbie :)"
01/08/2019 at 8:11pm
01/08/2019 at 8:03pm
01/08/2019 at 8:02pm
01/08/2019 at 7:18pm
"Kia kaha"
01/08/2019 at 7:09pm
01/08/2019 at 6:46pm
01/08/2019 at 6:43pm
01/08/2019 at 6:40pm
"Nek minute, an NZ company. Good on you guys! :)"
01/08/2019 at 6:26pm
01/08/2019 at 5:46pm
"Absolutely frothing with excitement!"
01/08/2019 at 4:31pm
"So excited to see this launch. Am going to do more but the hot sauce got me!"
01/08/2019 at 4:16pm
01/08/2019 at 3:57pm
"Churrrrr"
01/08/2019 at 2:58pm
"Great initiative team!"
01/08/2019 at 2:57pm
"Good on you guys! Hope it works out for you."
01/08/2019 at 2:54pm
"Love your work, DB should pitch in!"
01/08/2019 at 2:20pm
01/08/2019 at 1:56pm
"Had to grab a couple :)"
01/08/2019 at 1:55pm
01/08/2019 at 1:54pm
"I can not wait to start using this yeast!! Then i can brew a beer that contains all New Zealand grown products!"
01/08/2019 at 1:37pm
"The World needs good yeast. "
01/08/2019 at 1:32pm
01/08/2019 at 1:28pm
01/08/2019 at 1:16pm
"Congrats team Froth "
01/08/2019 at 1:13pm
01/08/2019 at 1:12pm
"Yea boys!! Love your work!!!"
01/08/2019 at 1:10pm
01/08/2019 at 12:03pm
"Exciting stuff!"
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Beer Needs Yeast, Froth Needs You!
Project 2019-06-18 23:21:17 +1200
Water, Malt, Hops... Yeast? 🔬
Until now, NZ brewers have had no local yeast options, and have been forced to use yeast imported from far away places. Froth Technologies is here to change that, by launching Aotearoa’s first commercial yeast lab! But we need your help...
12 months ago founders Simon and Ryan recognized a gap in the local beer industry. Having been part of the NZ craft beer scene for nearly a decade, the boys knew first hand the challenges associated with importing yeast from overseas.
Being a highly perishable product, liquid yeast requires expensive refrigerated air-freight, and is often not at its best by the time it gets here. There can also be timing and customs delays, with some overseas yeast labs no longer sending their product here due to these challenges.
With malt, hops, and water all world-renowned for their high quality, and able to be sourced locally, there was just one piece of the puzzle left to help take NZ’s brewing industry to the next level... NZ made yeast.
Yeast is a microorganism that is responsible for fermentation in beer, wine and cider and a major influencer of quality and flavour.
So the boys have spent the past year making sure a local yeast lab was something that professional and home brewers wanted, through market research, focus groups, and lengthy conversations with brewers.
Fast forward to now, and Froth Technologies has set up a lab in the heart of Wellington’s brewing district, we’ve made yeast for four awesome breweries, we’ve been published in a couple of beer magazines, and now we’re looking to grow our production capacity to meet the demands of the already frothing market.
😀 And that’s where you come in!
We need to raise a minimum of $30,000 so that we can purchase the production and technical equipment that we need to make enough yeast for everybody. Equipment like:
- A cryogenic freezer (to store our yeast at -80C and hold it in suspended animation)
- A laminar flow hood (to allow us to expand our sterile working area for higher thru-put)
- A 1000L propagation tank (to grow larger batches of yeast)
- Analytics tools (precision equipment for guaranteeing quality and providing lab services)
🌏 Sustainability
Froth Technologies is acutely aware of the challenges we and our planet face, and we believe that business can be a great mechanism for levering positive change.
Froth Technologies is an impact business that cares about our ecosystem and the earthlings that rely on it. So we’ve developed a carbon reduction strategy, and we are working towards becoming a Carbon Zero certified company.
We’ve also been busy innovating ways to make our packaging as low impact as possible. Thanks to some hard mahi and the help of a couple of other fantastic organisations we’ve produced these bottles to package our yeast in. They’re made from sugar cane and they sequester more than twice their weight in CO2 over the lifecycle of their production. We’ve also sourced these incredible insulative boxes for keeping our yeast cold during shipping. They’re made from 97% sustainable paper, they’re 95-97% recyclable in kerbside recycling, and their thermal performance is comparable to polystyrene.
🎁 Pledge Rewards
Rewards are expected to be delivered in October, once the campaign closes and the pledges are all paid. Yeast pitches will be delivered through Oct - Dec. Rewards are only available in NZ.
NZ Yeast Pledgers will be able to choose their strain(s) once the campaign has concluded.
Download our Yeast Menu [pdf]
👋 Our Team
RYAN CARVILLE
Co-founder / Left Brain
Ryan’s studies in Philosophy and Religious Studies were always going to lead him to yeast…. After years of homebrewing and volunteering at beer festivals, Ryan took up his first commercial brewing gig at Eagle Brewing in Christchurch (2015). There he handled all aspects of the brewing process and got to engage with punters and the industry, working at every major beer festival in the country. Now that he’s in Wellington he spends his days (when he’s not Frothing) in at the Wild Workshop for Garage Project making all kinds of barrelled, funky, sour and spontaneously fermented brews. It's the intersect between art and science in beer that really gets Ryan going. He's a lover flavours and fermentation, flora and fauna, and thrives on problem solving and coming up with ways to do things efficiently. 🔗Ryan's Linkedin
SIMON COOKE
Co-founder / Right Brain
Simon studied Graphic Design at Massey University in Wellington, where he founded the Massey University Brewing Society, and brewed his first commercial batch of beer (2012). The passion grew through teaching other students how to brew, and organising craft-focused events to engage them with the emergent beer scene. Simon then spent a couple of years overseas, brewing and exploring locations around Europe and Canada, and gaining a wider view of brewing knowledge. Following this he founded a contract brewing label, Kakariki Beer Co. to share his beer creations with a wider audience. More recently he’s been flexing his creativity and ideation in the startup scene, supporting social enterprises and impact businesses through graphic design, marketing, and events. 🔗Simon's Linkedin
🙌 Gratitude
Thank you to the Zero Carbon Challenge and everyone else that has contributed their time, expertise, resources, and support to this campaign. There are too many kind hearted humans & organisations to mention.
Campaign Video credit:
Camera & Director - Chris Cooke
Supplimentary Footage from Bryson Rooney (via Hāpi Research), also Gladfield Malt
Editing: Ezra McDonald
Post Production: Mikey Bucher
Comments
It's our FINAL DAY!
12/09/2019 at 2:10 PM
Kia ora koutou!
Wow what a ride the past 6 weeks has been! Thanks to your incredible support we have not only reached our minimum crowd funding goal of $30K, but we've blown through to a healthy $32,146 and climbing!
This support has help us look forward to our next steps for growth. We've been shopping around for a new site to call home, and obtaining incredibly detailed quotes on our lab-grade tanks and equipment in anticipation of the crowd funding coming through in the next week. We can't wait to start making more yeast! And we'll be sending out all the rewards once we receive all the pledge contributions, plus production / ordering time. We'll be sure to keep you updated!
So... our campaign closes TONIGHT at 11PM, and if you or anyone as frothy as you might still be wanting to grab one of our awesome rewards before we close, there's still time! If you're able to go the extra mile and post our PledgeMe link [pldg.me/froth] to your social media profile - that would be much appreciated, and would help us finish strong.
Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou, we are over the moon! #stayfrothy
Simon & Ryan
(the Froth boys)
First update from Froth Technologies...
03/08/2019 at 3:33 PM
It's been a spectacular first few days on our PledgeMe campaign, and we're pleased to let you know we're HALF WAY THERE! woo-hoo!! Thanks to all you incredible pledgers, we've now raised $15,682 towards our minimum goal of $30K. Here's Ryan with a quick update from the Froth lab. Thanks everyone! And remember to spread the word. -much love, the Froth Boys pldg.me/froth
01/08/2019 at 8:45pm
"Go Boys fantastic idea keep in in NZ. W&D. "
01/08/2019 at 8:43pm
"Wishing you success in your new venture. Willy & Debbie :)"
01/08/2019 at 8:11pm
01/08/2019 at 8:03pm
01/08/2019 at 8:02pm
01/08/2019 at 7:18pm
"Kia kaha"
01/08/2019 at 7:09pm
01/08/2019 at 6:46pm
01/08/2019 at 6:43pm
01/08/2019 at 6:40pm
"Nek minute, an NZ company. Good on you guys! :)"
01/08/2019 at 6:26pm
01/08/2019 at 5:46pm
"Absolutely frothing with excitement!"
01/08/2019 at 4:31pm
"So excited to see this launch. Am going to do more but the hot sauce got me!"
01/08/2019 at 4:16pm
01/08/2019 at 3:57pm
"Churrrrr"
01/08/2019 at 2:58pm
"Great initiative team!"
01/08/2019 at 2:57pm
"Good on you guys! Hope it works out for you."
01/08/2019 at 2:54pm
"Love your work, DB should pitch in!"
01/08/2019 at 2:20pm
01/08/2019 at 1:56pm
"Had to grab a couple :)"
01/08/2019 at 1:55pm
01/08/2019 at 1:54pm
"I can not wait to start using this yeast!! Then i can brew a beer that contains all New Zealand grown products!"
01/08/2019 at 1:37pm
"The World needs good yeast. "
01/08/2019 at 1:32pm
01/08/2019 at 1:28pm
01/08/2019 at 1:16pm
"Congrats team Froth "
01/08/2019 at 1:13pm
01/08/2019 at 1:12pm
"Yea boys!! Love your work!!!"
01/08/2019 at 1:10pm
01/08/2019 at 12:03pm
"Exciting stuff!"