An agreement between the Association of Craft Brewers of Costa Rica (ACACR) and High Technology Center Foundation (FunCeNAT), will allow 42 breweries to enhance the production of craft beer in Costa Rica as an innovative product.
According to researchers José Pablo Quirós and Iray Mata, specialists in bioprocesses, the relationship between the National Center for Biotechnological Innovations (CENIBiot) and the craft brewers union has been going for four years, as well as the periodic training to producers, and the reproduction of yeasts of interest for breweries in laboratories.
They bring us the strain they want, acquired from another supplier, and what we do is a service to spread that yeast, like making copies of something they already bought,”
explained Quirós.
Iray Mata stressed that the importance of the agreement is that CENIBiot becomes an ally of a sector that began six years ago with the great challenge of breaking the existing monopoly of industrial beer.
The quality of their beers is a key element for this differentiation,”
said the researcher.
The president of ACACR, Ignacio Castro, highlighted the advantages of working hand in hand with the laboratory to not only formalize the link, but also take a step forward in the professionalization of craft beer producers.