Steric is a flavor optimization tool for wine, spirits, and RTDs. The proprietary process uses precisely controlled electromagnetic fields to change how existing components interact and are perceived, refining flavor, aroma, and mouthfeel. Processing takes seconds at ambient temperature and pressure. Nothing is added or removed, alcohol content remains unchanged, and there is no waste stream.
Steric helps producers improve balance, reduce unwanted sensory characteristics, and fine-tune their product’s expression. Adjustable processing settings let clients refine premium products, recover commercially challenged inventory, and improve batch consistency.
Deploying Steric requires no capital expense or upfront cost. Steric offers custom lease programs tailored to each client’s production volume and needs, along with small-batch processing for select projects at any location.
Steric can improve quality and production economics by helping producers recover off-spec inventory, reduce corrective processing, and improve consistency. It can also help create distinct expressions from existing products. A sample evaluation helps identify the potential value for each client’s operation.
Steric offers small-batch processing for select projects, including individual barrels, totes, and limited production runs. For ongoing needs, the Steric Artisan system processes approximately 300 gallons per hour. Steric will help each client determine the right approach for its volume and goals.
Steric refines the components already present in a spirit; it does not replicate barrel aging. The process works on aged and unaged spirits using electromagnetic energy, without additives, filtration, heat, pressure changes, or ultrasound. It can improve flavor integration and soften harshness while preserving the spirit’s character.
Steric gives distillers another way to fine-tune an exceptional spirit. Precise processing settings can bring subtle flavors forward, improve integration, and refine mouthfeel while preserving its distinctive character. For sourced spirits, it can also help develop a signature expression and improve consistency across batches.
Steric can soften harshness, reduce unwanted aromas, and balance excessive oak or tannin influence. This can give producers more sourcing flexibility and help suitable younger spirits reach their target profile sooner. Sample processing lets clients evaluate the results against their quality goals.
TTB has provided written guidance stating that it has no objection to using the Steric Process on distilled spirits and does not classify Steric equipment as “major equipment” requiring installation notification. Steric can share that guidance to support a client’s compliance review.
Steric can improve flavor integration, reduce bitterness and astringency, soften alcohol harshness, and refine mouthfeel. It helps producers achieve a more balanced finished beverage using the components already in the formulation, without adding or removing anything.
Steric can improve the sensory performance of lower-cost alcohol bases and other inputs, giving producers more sourcing flexibility while maintaining their target flavor profile. For neutral spirit bases, processing can reduce unwanted aromas and harshness so the intended flavors come through more clearly. At commercial volumes, small reductions in ingredient costs can deliver meaningful savings.
Steric can be applied to individual ingredients, intermediate blends, or finished beverages. The best point depends on the formulation and the result the client wants to achieve. Side-by-side sample evaluations help determine where processing delivers the greatest benefit.
Steric gives production teams another tool for bringing variable batches closer to a brand’s target profile. Adjustable processing settings can help fine-tune balance, integration, and mouthfeel without automatically requiring reformulation or additional ingredients.
Steric can improve balance, flavor expression, body, and mouthfeel. Depending on the wine and the client’s goals, processing can soften astringency, refine tannin expression, and improve the perceived balance of acidity, fruit, and alcohol. The client selects the settings that best express the wine.
Steric works with the components already in the wine, without adding flavors or removing material. Processing settings let clients refine balance and texture while preserving the vineyard, vintage, and varietal characteristics the client wants to express.
Steric’s ongoing aging studies indicate that processed wines continue to develop along predictable trajectories. Steric evaluates processing with the wine’s intended style and aging goals in mind, and can share relevant findings as part of a client’s product assessment.
The right timing depends on the client’s goal. Processing an individual barrel or tank before blending can help address a specific imbalance. Processing the final blend can refine integration and mouthfeel before bottling. Steric can be applied at multiple stages of winemaking, from individual lots to a finished blend.
Steric adds nothing to and removes nothing from the wine, and uses no processing additives or physical filtration. For clients holding organic or biodynamic certification, Steric can provide process information for the certifier’s review so the client can confirm its use under the applicable certification requirements.
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