To ensure just the right amount of magic in Mojito pre-blended whiskey drinks, Jacksonville, Florida-based Bacardi Bottling Corp. combines science and craftsmanship to blend premium rum, spices and exceptional natural ingredients to create Delicious drinks like a Caribbean summer shower.
"Bacardi's experienced technicians and production staff provide the experience and craftsmanship to launch new beverages, while X-Rite provides the scientific equipment and technology," said John Scussel, Beverage Factory Laboratory Supervisor.
“We can’t use the exact same recipe for every batch of Bacardi Mojito due to the color variation of several of the ingredients we add. It’s notoriously difficult to control the finish with natural ingredients,” says Scussel. “Small variations in the color of each ingredient can make a big difference in a Mojito, and our customers demand consistency not only in taste, but in appearance as well.”
Making 10,000 gallons or more of Mojito cocktails only to discover that the color did not meet Bacardi's stringent standards was a costly mistake, so the Bacardi factory has begun using the Color i7 A 2 liter batch sample was measured in transmission mode with Color iQC software to determine the correct formulation for the entire production batch.
“Now that we have this device, I think we can do things that we hadn’t thought of and couldn’t do with color software and hardware before,” Scussel said. product". Bacardi is the world's largest private spirits company, producing and distributing more than 200 brands and popular product trademarks, such as Bacardi rum, Gray Goose vodka, Dewar's blended Scotch whiskey, Bombay Sapphire gin and Martini vermouth. Bacardi Ltd.'s products are distributed in more than 100 markets around the world, and Bacardi Cola is rated as the best cocktail in the world.
Scussel said he was convinced that X-Rite provided good hardware, software and application support services for a number of reasons. What matters is the proprietary software written in-house at X-Rite that is powerful and easy to use.
"X-Rite's support for their software is really great," Scussel said. "Obviously, X-Rite talks to the people who use color Measurement Instruments. This company is trying to satisfy customers, not make things easier for their software engineers."
"Software, for example, has a theoretical system for almost every color anyone could possibly need. So using a different system is just a matter of telling the software what you want. Also, graphical representation is great. We build what we call colorboxes — a rectangular color specification diagram. It's easy to see, understand, and print. You can put it in someone's hand and tell them why the color is wrong — 'Oh, it's a little yellow.'”
Through the Color iQC software, customers can record measurement data, process parameters, historical records and other information in the form of files, and easily realize data sharing or cross-regional management.
As Bacardi is an international company operating 27 production plants in 17 countries, including Puerto Rico, Scotland, Italy, France, Spain, Germany and Mexico, the company is keen to share results while Devices in different locations use the same standard. "X-Rite's NetProfiler technology is worth the money," said Scussel. "His colleagues at the Bacardi plant in Spain also use the X-Rite system, which allows them to easily share standards and data. Other plants are in Ask how we make color management easy, and I think there's a global interest in using X-Rite products."
“NetProfiler is absolutely great: it makes devices in several places behave as if they were one,” he says. If the equipment is not properly calibrated, X-Rite's great support system can help fix it."
The NetProfiler2 system allows companies to automatically test, measure and calibrate their equipment over the network, ensuring that each device operates with high precision. Using proprietary software and recognized physical standards, the system generates NIST-traceable statistics for the performance of instruments on the same network in minutes. This allows factories to exchange spectral color data with confidence that they are using the same standard.
Scussel said he is considering enabling other aspects of the Color iQC software to help predict product color by entering information about ingredients in a recipe—performing virtual trials without mixing recipes. "The beauty of X-Rite software is that you can add modules without having to relearn a whole new software package," he said, "I don't have to relearn how to use the software." customers use."
However, the reason why Scussel finally chose the X-Rite series products was the company's service commitment. X-Rite specially designed and customized the bracket, so he could use the existing special cuvettes for transmission measurement on the Color i7. And the cost is very reasonable. "X-Rite's service is very attentive and very practical," he said. "As soon as I call, someone will help me solve the problem."
