Malting barley and brewing industries are cornerstones in Europe. The beer processing industries require premium malting quality to reach subsequent high quality end product.
However, parameters currently used for assessing malting quality are complex and based on methods such as visual appraisals and chemical analysis that are not always accurate, time and labour intensive, prone to operator interpretation, etc. OPTIMALT project aims at overcoming these limitations by developing a rapid and reliable on-line tool for assessing the malting quality of barley using automated optical analysis. It will thus contribute boosting the competitiveness of European brewing sector as well as malting barley supply chain.
OPTIMALT is a 3 year R&D Project funded by EU’s Seventh Framework Programme “Research for SME associations”. The OPTIMALT consortium is composed by 11 industry partners and 3 RTD performers altogether representing 6 European Member States and Turkey.
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