{"id":8213,"date":"2025-09-10T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/?p=7346844"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:00:00","slug":"new-1-2m-renovation-lets-beverage-makers-experiment-in-penticton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/news\/8213\/new-1-2m-renovation-lets-beverage-makers-experiment-in-penticton\/","title":{"rendered":"New $1.2M renovation lets beverage makers experiment in Penticton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drink makers are going to be able to head to the newly renovated lab at Okanagan College&#8217;s Penticton campus to work on innovative beverages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Okanagan College has spent $1.2 million to renovate its Beverage Technology Access Centre with a new canning line that\u2019s meant to support anyone in the beverage sector, according to a press release from the college issued today, Sept. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo be able to access the science and the research and the students \u2014 it&#8217;s incredible what we can do when we work together with folks like BC Beverage Technology Access Centre,\u201d owner of Tin Whistle Brewing Alexis Esseltine said in the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lab has a new canning line so businesses have the chance to can new, small batches of their latest creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funding for the renovations came evenly from the BC Knowledge Development fund and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, each giving $638,226.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe BC Beverage Technology Access Centre has played a key role in helping our province&#8217;s beverage industry grow and innovate sustainably, and this renovation will provide even greater support for producers to succeed,&#8221; Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon said in the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The centre is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and BC Ministry of Post Secondary Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/infotel.ca\/inwine\/okanagan-college-gets-175m-grant-for-wine-beer-innovation\/it105237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">centre received $1.75 million<\/a>&nbsp;for the college\u2019s innovation program for beer and wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The centre has been open for five years and has supported businesses while giving students experience that helps their education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe beginning of what we&#8217;ve seen with the&nbsp;(Technology Access Centre) over the last half decade has been instrumental for a nascent industry like ours,\u201d Okanagan Spirits owner and president of the Craft Distillers Guild of BC Tyler Dyck said in the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHaving those supports will give us the ability to grow and to develop into the economic driver for the province and for Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okanagan College has spent $1.2 million to renovate its Beverage Technology Access Centre in Penticton with a new canning line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":8214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1810,706,704],"tags":[],"region":[547,548,549,550],"class_list":["post-8213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/inwine-hd-mediaitemid110493-2954.jpg","post_modified":"2025-09-10T19:00:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:00:00","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8213"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=8213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}