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A fruit-flavored beer has to hit the consumer in the face with potent and enticing aroma when they crack open the can. It needs to smell like the name on the label and it needs to draw the drinker in - all without being so overpowering that they can’t finish their drink. Welcome to the Jetson’s future we were promised.
The skyfarm series is a collection of the
most aromatic fruit flavor top notes.
Seriously, don’t just take our word for it. Grab a sample pack and experience the future of flavor for yourself.
An easy way to try six of our best and brightest. Dose these into a pint of your beer and watch how they transform the experience. skyfarm is a collection of the most aromatic fruit flavor top notes - built using the power of terpenes.
The skyfarm series represents the freshest, most perfect version of fruit flavor and aroma. It has none of that “cooked” off-flavor that can sometimes tank a beer. There’s also none of that grandma’s perfume, potpourri, or floral junk either.
skyfarm is high-amplitude, recognizable flavor - and that’s important because when you put Strawberry on your label, consumers are going to expect to smell strawberries. It’s built with terpenes for the ultimate flavor consistency, ensuring the same flavor in every season.
Maybe you’ve tried purees. Maybe you’ve tried concentrates. skyfarm is none of that. So let’s get into it.
Compare these to the flavor of other options and it’s like night and day.
Strong and recognizable fruity aroma every time you crack a can.
There’s no sugar in skyfarm, so there’s no risk of refermentation.
Absolutely no ethanol or alcohol needed to carry the flavor through.
skyfarm goes right into your existing workflow with no modifications.
Every flavor is TTB-Approved with FIDS documents available.
skyfarm is immediately dispersed into solution. Less wait, more beer.
These are aromatic top notes that don’t impart sweetness or body.
"Having spent over a decade researching flavor in beer, wine, and spirits I've tasted my fair share of fatty, rancid mango flavors and peach aromatics that smelled more like perfume than the fresh Palisade peaches I grew up eating. skyfarm steers in the other direction, representing the freshest, most desirable fruit that's lodged away in nostalgia. These are unequivocally the best fruit flavors I've tasted."
Craig Thomas Master Cicerone® | Abstrax
Think of terpenes like building blocks. We
build beautiful aroma.
skyfarm doesn’t impart any added sugar or
color to your beverage.
Add it into your brite
tank and you’re done.
It’s that easy.
Dose way less than
you would expect to impart huge aroma.
Use “Natural Flavors” on your ingredient list.
Compare the price of skyfarm to purees, whole fruits, or fruit extracts.
skyfarm comes in lightproof bottles with
no need to refrigerate.
skyfarm is a liquid so there is nothing to soak up potential beer.
Adding to the brite tank enables precise flavor control in the final beer, eliminating the risk of aromatic compound loss from additional processing. This method also prevents flavor alterations caused by yeast activity and biotransformation.
skyfarm offers similar ease-of-use benefits as flavor extracts, but it goes way, way further in terms of flavor, aroma, and handling. It also requires only a fraction of the dosing you’d typically need. Terpenes are awesome.
As an alternative to fruit purees, concentrates, and essences - skyfarm has been built from the ground up using isolated terpenes. Think of them like little building blocks. We extract, purify, and then rebuild them into the brightest flavor expression possible. This precise control allows for us to create unbelievable, repeatable natural flavors and aromas without the added sugar or the calories.
We’ve found that simply smelling skyfarm is usually enough for people to try them in their next batch. They’re that good. So let’s get them into your hands. Click below to contact us.
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“It’s so incredibly versatile, and I've only just discovered its true potential as a "secret weapon". Our current batch demonstrates how it can be used during hot side active fermentation, at terminal, and with finished beer in the brite tank. Shit’s good bro.”
Geoff Belcher
Head Innovations Brewer | New Realm Brewing Co
Turns out - not really. Fruit purees are literal sugar bombs that require diligent, careful dosing. Not to mention the inherent flavor/aroma inconsistencies that can come with using harvested fruit. Your puree this year might taste different from last year.
Now don’t get us wrong, fruit purees have their place. They contribute body and mouthfeel to the finished beer, which can be great! If you can pair the best aspects of purees with an incredible and consistent aromatic punch, then baby, you’ve got a stew going.
Fruit is usually added during the fermentation process so that the yeast can eat up all of that extra sugar. But guess what yeast creates? Carbon dioxide. And excess carbon dioxide will easily strip off the volatile aromatic compounds.
Add the puree too early and you’re butchering the aromatics that you’re after. Add it too late and you’ll have to deal with sugar and possible refermentation due to lingering yeast.
skyfarm has absolutely zero sugar. There is no risk of refermentation and you don’t need to do a little dance just to get it into your beer. Add it to your brite tank and you’re done.
It’s also way, way more potent than other natural flavor/extract options. We recommend that you experiment with a small dose to get the feel of things. This is a lot more bang for your buck.
The pectin in the fruit contributes to the cloudy, haziness found in some beers. Maybe that’s what you’re after. Or maybe you’d like to have the same (or greater) fruity aroma in a beer you can actually see through.
There’s also the issue of tank cleanup from that sweet, sweet sugar residue. It’s not usually a dealbreaker, but hey, who wouldn’t like to shorten their turnover time?
skyfarm contributes no haze so you can keep your beer golden and clear without feeling like you’re drinking a milkshake.
It’s also not sticky and doesn’t leave a residue so forget about scrubbing fruit gunk from your tanks.
Like it or not - the seltzer revolution has changed the way consumers drink. People are looking for more varied and flavorful options today. Whether that means beer, seltzers, or ciders - people want flavor.
skyfarm works flawlessly in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. It adds no sugar, no calories, and yet it still smacks you in the face with flavor and aroma. It’s hyper-concentrated so that you don’t need nearly as much, and it’s shelf stable so shipping and storing are a breeze. Just toss it in the fridge after you’ve opened it.
There is no seasonal variability or weird “cooked” or “canned” flavors. There’s no yield loss, no refermentation, no haze contribution, no sugar, and no calories. Heck, it’s not even flammable.
Strong and recognizable fruity aroma every time you crack a can.
Absolutely no ethanol or alcohol needed to carry the flavor through.
Think of terpenes like building blocks. We
build beautiful aroma.
skyfarm comes in lightproof bottles with no need to refrigerate.
"Abstrax is shifting the paradigm by not just complimenting the hops that we all love through new processes, but also solving the problems and pushing the boundaries of what we can accomplish."
Alex Tweet
Owner | Fieldwork Brewing
Skyfarm is Abstrax Hops’ line of innovative, fruit-forward natural flavor products for brewing beer and craft beverages.
These have been built from the ground up using botanically sourced terpene isolates to deliver incredible fruit flavor and aroma. Whereas many flavorhouses rely on essential oils which are inherently variable, the skyfarm series reliably produces a consistent and dependable flavor to your beverages.
Simply put - the skyfarm series is a collection of the most aromatic fruit flavor top notes.
Kinda but not really. Just like a car and a tractor are kind of similar, the skyfarm series goes way beyond purees and concentrates in terms of flavor, aroma, and handling.
First off, there’s no sugar or color added from skyfarm. Which also means that there are no calories imparted and absolutely no risk of refermentation. Purees usually impart some level of haze to your beer whereas skyfarm doesn’t contribute any haze. There’s also no solid waste to remove, no need to refrigerate prior to opening, no yield loss, and no seasonal or batch variability.
With skyfarm you’re not getting any of that grandma’s perfume, potpourri, floral junk. Also none of those “cooked” off-flavors or overly ripe notes, for example.
The skyfarm series is built with terpenes for the ultimate flavor consistency, ensuring the same bright flavor in every season.
Other fruit top notes can be synthetic, rank, or overly candy-like. Dosing rates between flavors (even within the same brand or company) can vary by degrees of magnitude. And there is always the ever-occurring problem relating to consistency of flavor.
Abstrax has endeavored to solve these problems by constructing the skyfarm series with terpene isolates, guaranteeing a degree of control over the process that has not previously been explored.
We also have a world-class flavor dev team who, quite simply, makes consistently incredible stuff.
Nope. There is no need for special handling and you don’t have to make any modifications to your existing workflow. You don’t even need to refrigerate it before opening. You can save storage space too since skyfarm comes in opaque bottles instead of boxes and bags.
Thanks to skyfarm’s unique water-based emulsion, you can instantly understand the flavor impact by dosing them directly into packaged beer or carbonated water.
Start your benchtop sensory experiments with a 0.04% dosing rate (0.4 mL/L or 1.59 oz/bbl). Feel free to work your way up to around 0.07% at the high end. At least, that’s what has worked for us.
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