Pursuit Dynamics in Huntingdon – trading as PDX – is hoping to cash in on two innovations by its brewing division.

It has launched two new brewing solutions for mashing and cooking. They have been commercially evaluated over a series of brewing trials in collaboration with the Versuchs-und Lehranstalt fur Brauerei in Berlin (VLB) and Doemens Academy, Germany.

PDX says the trials demonstrated that the mashing solution can deliver significant thermal and electrical energy savings, of up to 15 per cent of the total energy used. It can also reduce processing times by virtue of a rate of heating twice that of conventional systems, while even improving the quality of the mash by removing undesirable volatile compounds.

The solution also allows brewers to re-think their process by eliminating the need for a mechanical agitator, reducing capital expenditure for the brewery as well as energy costs once again, says the company.

PDX says its cereal cooking solution also is proven to reduce processing times and energy costs. In addition it reduces the costs of raw materials and produces a greater volume of extract for a given volume of raw material due to the ability of the PDX to hyper swell the starch.

Both solutions will be commercially available later this month. PDX expects strong interest from leading brewers around the world, to which PDX now offers a broad range of products that can be combined as a single solution approach offering the potential to change the whole approach to the brewing process and the instrumentation used.

PDX Brewing's existing range of products includes premashing, wort boiling and disinfection solutions, which it offers to companies including highly respected German brewer Radeberger, which has bought and is running a wort-boiling system at one of its large scale industrial plants, as well as Warsteiner and Bitburger in Germany and SAB MillerCoors in the US, which are running pilot installations.