Realizzato produces a coffee liqueur made by fermenting upcycled coffee grounds collected from UK coffee retailers and sells it for under $30. The makers promote the product as extremely environmentally friendly and assert it represents a novel industrial fermentation from a new ingredient in over 400 years. The distilling process uses a special form of hydrolysis followed by fermentation, triple distillation, blending and bottling in recycled materials. The East Sussex-based distillery adapted techniques after reading a 2014 scientific paper, tested historical experiments, and waited two years for regulatory approval. The process can be applied to other plant matter such as paper and tree bark.
Not shying away from a bit of marketing hyperbole, the makers of Realizzato claim they've created "the world's most environmentally-friendly and sustainable alcoholic beverage." The brand also says that their coffee liqueur marks the first time in more than 400 years that alcohol has been fermented from a completely new ingredient using an industrial process. At first, this seems overly boastful: It's a liqueur made from upcycled coffee grounds collected from UK coffee retailers.
But talk to Rob Murray, CEO of Murray & Yeatman - the innovative distillery behind Realizzato - and you'll start to see the larger picture. "While we've done this for the coffee grounds now, the process can actually be done to any plant matter," he explains. "We've done it with paper. We've done it with tree bark." The East Sussex-based distillery started the Realizzato project after the founders read an article about a similar distilling concept published in a scientific journal in 2014.
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