Enterprise Academy co-sponsors School of Food Science and Environmental Health Science Week event
Enterprise Academy co-sponsors School of Food Science and Environmental Health Science Week event
Dublin Science Festival event included talks from national experts, demonstrations, tasting and more!
Enterprise partners, Brewing and Distilling Researchers, academic staff, and students were welcomed by the School of Food Science and Environmental Health to an evening of the Science of Brewing and Distilling as part of Science Week.
Welcomed to TU Dublin, Head of School Christine O'Connor opened the event to a full house held at Central Quad, Grangegorman Campus. Before a tour and demonstrations in the School's laboratories she introduced specialist talks by Richie Hacket of Teagasc, Oak Park on Supporting the Production of Irish Grains for the Irish Drinks Industry.
Marie Byrne, Director of Operations of the Church of Oak Distillery; Steve Gilsenans Tech Team from Guinness hosted demonstrations. Stuart McNamara, TU Dublin student and co-owner of Portmagee Distillery sponsored prizes and did a demonstration in the food processing hall, and Teeling Whiskey exhibited in at the main hall with others student showing their research and projects including Geographical Indicators for Irish Whiskey by Postgraduate Certificate student Laura Dowling.
Dr. Gemma Kinsella, Dr. Dr Tao Zhang, Dr Azza Silotry Naik; Laura Dowling of the State Laboratory and current TU Dublin Post Graduate Student showcases some of her research on Geographical Indicators for Irish Whiskey and Stuart McNamara of Portmagee Whiskey among other participants at the School of Food Science and Environmental Heath Science Week Event at TU Dublin Central Quad.
Dr. Claire Mc Bride, Head of the Enterprise Academy and Dr. Ciara Walsh attended the event with some of the first graduating class of the Postgraduate Certificate in Brewing and Distilling. The programme was designed and developed by Dr, Walsh as part of a fellowship offered by the TU Dublin Enterprise Academy, as an opportunity for motivated staff to contribute to transforming TU Dublin's relationship with enterprise. This programme was the first taught postgraduate qualification in brewing and distilling in Ireland.
Currently in Ireland we are experiencing large growth in the Brewing and Distilling Industry. We have grown from two distilleries to over 40 distilleries in recent times. With such advances and development in this sector, the School of Food Science and Environmental Health are looking to ways of educating the work force and our future food science graduates to be aware of the Science of brewing and distilling.
Many topics are to be explored and developed in the sector which are under pinned by Science such as sustainability, new product development, sensory analysis, chemical analysis of starting ingredients and final commercial products and valorisation of waste materials from the industry, to name but a few.
For more on the School of Food Science and Environmental Heath and the Postgraduate Certificate in Brewing and Distilling.
