Tech Hub – a major new opportunity for your brewery and beverage development teams.
Murphy & Son has partnered with the University of Nottingham's International Centre for Brewing Science to create a unique, end-to-end service - offering pilot brewing, troubleshooting, analytical services, specialist training, and product development support all in one place.
This collaboration brings together Murphy & Son's proven industry expertise with the University's world leading brewing science capabilities to give you unmatched technical support, innovation capacity, learning and development, and process optimisation tools.
What the Tech Hub offers you
- Your complete solution for brewing innovation & problem‑solving. Whether you’re developing a new product, improving an existing process, or tackling technical challenges, our combined team provides specialist advice and hands-on support across every stage of production.
- Access to an unparalleled 10 hL pilot research brewery. Our flexible, fully instrumented 10 hL plant allows you to run highly controlled brewing trials, replicate your production conditions, and test process variables without interrupting your commercial output.
- Specialist brewery training and development. We are developing new pathways to support learning and development needs across the industry.
- Specialist expertise in no/low alcohol beverage development. From early-stage new product development to process optimisation, our experts can help you develop great tasting‑ No/Low options that match your brand profile and meet current market demands.
- Drive sustainability and cut costs with advanced process options.
- Reduce energy usage by >50% with simmer and strip wort boiling
- Run flavour matching‑ trials to replicate your existing products
- Optimise dry hopping to reduce losses and minimise hop creep
- Explore unmalted cereals and adjuncts to cut cost and carbon footprint
- End-to-end support for functional beverages, RTDs and near beers. Our facilities allow you to blend, carbonate and package a wide range of beverage formats - including hop waters, functional drinks, RTDs, near beers and more.
Let’s unlock what’s possible for your products
If you’re looking to accelerate new product development, reduce production risk, or optimise your brewing process, our new Tech Hub provides a powerful, practical way to do it - backed by two of the sector's most trusted organisations.
Find out more
To discuss a project or book pilot brewery time, please complete the enquiry form below and our team will get in touch.
Complete Tech Hub enquiry form