Exploring the last phases of product development: From kitchen to plant production

Sammanfattning: Despite the growing popularity of ginger beer, its production has been very little researched and poorly documented, the literature available regarding this topic being very limited. This thesis aims to fill this gap by exploring the final stages of development of a new alcoholic ginger beer, identify the difficulties encountered during production and evaluate various solutions to overcome them. It is often disregarded that production upscaling can lead to unexpected challenges and that the adaptation of the processing method to new processing conditions is necessary. By describing the development process of a feasible production method, this thesis is meant to bring to the reader’s attention the challenges involved in production upscaling and help make informed decisions regarding the trade-offs encountered in the meantime.