Red Stripe to start using cassava in its beer by March
LOCAL brewing company Red Stripe will be establishing its US$800,000 ($90.4 million) starch processing plant by January 2015. The facility will allow Red Stripe to make its flagship beer with at least five per cent cassava by next March.
Ultimately, the local brewer wants to replace 20 per cent of its imported barley with locally grown cassava. The company has secured a lease contract for 250 acres of land at Wallen, St Catherine, that will bring its total farmland under production to 286 acres.
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