FBPTEC4015 — Manage and propagate yeast

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What an assessment for FBPTEC4015 must cover

52 assessable components: 4 elements (22 performance criteria), 5 performance evidence and 23 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 2 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Select yeast variety

1.1Identify key properties of yeast and different strains
1.2Determine whether dry yeast to liquid yeast suits need
1.3Identify nutritional needs of yeast
1.4Establish yeast health, viability and vitality
1.5Identify storage requirements of yeast

2 Propagate yeast

2.1Identify and confirm propagation requirements
2.2Sterilise equipment and follow safe work practices
2.3Prepare yeast propagation media ensuring availability of nutrients
2.4Inoculate yeast culture ensuring aseptic techniques and incubate in specified conditions
2.5Monitor yeast count or yeast by weight, viability and vitality
2.6Perform microbiological techniques and methods to ensure a pure yeast culture

3 Maintain and monitor the propagation process

3.1Select, clean and sterilise equipment according to workplace health and safety and food safety procedures
3.2Conduct transfer operations to meet propagation requirements
3.3Add yeast to wort at specified ratio
3.4Make scale-up additions to ensure optimum performance
3.5Monitor time, temperature and nutrients to ensure propagation
3.6Conduct standard tests to monitor quality and flavour of product
3.7Identify and rectify out-of-specification product, process and equipment performance
3.8Identify different propagation equipment and methods

4 Harvest yeast

4.1Evaluate yeast slurry for harvesting
4.2Identify different yeast harvest methods
4.3Store yeast for re-use

Performance evidence

handling yeast to maintain its health and viability
determining how much yeast to pitch
carrying out a yeast count
monitoring the yeast propagation process
storing yeast to maintain its health and viability

Knowledge evidence

different types and strains of yeast used to make fermented beverages, including wild yeast
technical sheets for yeast products
yeast culture propagation requirements, including time, temperature and nutrition
how yeast grows
good practice for yeast handling
methods for carrying out a yeast count
purpose and principles of propagating yeast cultures
relationship of propagation to alcoholic fermentation
stages and changes that occur during culture propagation
effect of process stages on end product
quality characteristics and uses of yeast cultures
main methods used in propagating yeast for beer or spirit production
the fermentation reaction for yeast cultures
specific gravity of wort at different stages during fermentation
techniques that may be used to manipulate the propagation process and end product characteristics, including: temperature, yeast strain, wort stream, wort gravity, additions (nutrients), oxygen, pitching rates
process specifications, procedures and operating parameters relevant to beer or spirit yeast propagation
equipment and instrumentation components, purpose and operation required for yeast propagation processes
services used in brewer’s or distiller’s yeast propagation processes
significance and method of monitoring control points within the process
common causes of variation with equipment and corrective action required
work health and safety hazards and controls for handling and propagating yeast processes
waste handling requirements and procedures for yeast propagation processes
recording requirements of yeast processing

Foundation skills

Reading: Interpret production and process information from a variety of workplace documents
Numeracy: Perform counts on samples using grids Interpret and apply dilution ratios Log and track yeast counts Calculations to determine concentrations of extract as a percentage by weight (Degrees Plato)

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What does an assessment tool for FBPTEC4015 need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for FBPTEC4015 needs to address all 52 unit components: 4 elements with 22 performance criteria, 5 performance evidence requirements, 23 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.

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