"Guardian Angel" from FreshTech
Reducing Product Loss and Optimizing Barrel Storage Conditions for Wineries, Breweries, and Distilleries.
Wine barrels are porous, allowing for wine to breathe and micro-oxidize (aka age), however this also results in evaporative loss or ‘Angel’s Share’.
Over time this volume of product loss can be quite significant. Additionally, this creates headspace within the barrel which may cause oxygenation and microbial infection of the wine. Aside from the detrimental effects to the wine, low humidity also affects empty barrels in storage as dry wood will split and crack, resulting in leaky and compromised barrels.
Guardian Angel from FreshTech utilizes ultrasonic nebulization technology to create a super small water droplet. The resulting fog sits at the same molecular weight as air, allowing the water to permeate every surface in a given space.
Dry Fog technology from FreshTech creates humidity levels to suit your wine barrel storage needs.
The 1–3 micron water droplet in fog has shown to be the best possible way to reduce product loss in wineries, all without using an excessive amount of water.
Sanitation Protocols
So Dry Fog can prevent evaporative loss, maintain barrel integrity, cool the cellar, and generally save wineries a lot of money. What else can it do? Well in fact, it can also sanitize the cellar. By using the fog as a vector, the team at FreshTech aim to provide numerous adjuncts that will effectively give winemakers control over the biome of their cellar. Here are some candidates:
Peroxide
Trace amounts of peroxide mixed into solution will effectively sanitize a space. Currently FreshTech employs it in grocery and hospitals.
Pyrethrin
A product commonly used to kill fruit flies.
Chitosan
A product already used in wine application, when nebulized will kill Brettanomyces.
Dry Fog is ideal for spreading these adjuncts in the cellar and ensuring that every cubic millimeter of space is exposed. No more spoilage organisms in the air. No more fruit flies spreading bacteria. It cannot be misted without clogging the system. Only Dry Fog can do it!
