Today, we’re announcing our new partnership with Voodoo Scientific!
Voodoo plans to leverage Ginkgo Enzyme Services to help produce a component of ultra-premium spirit products that are truly smooth.
Most distilled alcoholic beverages produce some degree of harsh sensation, or “bite,” when consumed, which is a major deterrent for many potential customers. Voodoo identified the scientific cause for this harshness and created an enzymatic solution to give distillers the ability to manage it. Distillers can use Voodoo’s novel enzymatic solution to produce more premium products by creating smooth spirits.
Our extensive protein discovery and design capabilities will be used to help develop and optimize the enzyme critical to Voodoo’s product for a wide range of conditions in spirits manufacturing, from craft to global-scale production environments.
“Providing distillers with a means to eliminate, or control, the harshness of their spirits products is very gratifying,” said Joana Montenegro, co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Voodoo. “We believe we can enable new innovation in this large global industry and in ways that are truly meaningful to consumers seeking premium experiences. Ginkgo was the best choice of partners for us among the ones we considered because of their unique combination of strong scientific capabilities and a business model that fits an early-stage company like ours.”
Engineering this class of enzyme to operate under the unique conditions required for distilled alcoholic beverages is a great application for Ginkgo Enzyme Services. Improving the functionality of enzymes underpinning critical production processes – making enzymes work better – is an area we’re passionate about because it opens up real business opportunities for our customers, especially as they push into new product development.
To learn more about Ginkgo’s work in this space, join us on June 30th from 10:00 – 11:00 am ET for our Functional Food Proteins with Microbial Expression Systems virtual event.
