Slant Six Consulting

Multifaceted Service Provider to the Brewing and Beverage Industry

SLANT SIX CONSULTING is a multifaceted service provider that can help your brewery deliver the best quality beer in the most efficient manner. We bring over 40 years of experience and technical know-how to all aspects of the brewing process, providing a wide range of solutions to the diverse challenges faced by craft breweries, commercial breweries, and the network of industry experts who serve them. From small to large scale, from ale to lager, from traditional to innovative—we have the expertise, the connections, and the passion to help you brew the best beer possible.

Services

Slant Six Consulting can support your brewing in all aspects of the process, providing innovative solutions that are informed by decades of experience in small and large brewing companies. Whether you are looking to improve your beer quality, process efficiency, or profitability, we have the skills to meet your needs and help you achieve your goals.

In short, Slant Six Consulting can support you in all things brewing. Services we offer include (but not limited to):

  • Brewery design, including start-up and optimization

  • Recipe development and optimization

  • Quality assurance and control

  • Process improvement and troubleshooting

  • Equipment selection, installation, and commissioning

  • Staff training and education

  • Sustainability and waste management

  • New facility design, construction and commissioning

  • Brewhouse optimization in all process steps

  • Hot trub processing with centrifugation to improve efficiency

  • Dry hopping quality and efficiency improvements

  • Beer gushing – root cause determination and effect blocking of all causes

  • Fermentation optimization for best sensory results, beer stability, and consistency

  • Centrifugation optimization and maintenance

    • Decanters, sedicanters, nozzle and sliding bowl bottom machines

  • Seltzer production

  • Beer finishing improvements

    • Including fining and/or filtration with DE or Perlite

  • Flash pasteurization design, construction, and operation

  • Instrumentation specification, installation, and optimization

  • Piping design and installation

  • CIP optimization

  • Utilities design and operation (steam, water, gas, wastewater)

  • Manufacturing inclusive design

  • Data capture and advanced analytics, using machine learning and AI for process optimization

Past Projects

Your knowledge on flash pasteurizers helped simplify our problem. You were more than willing to walk us through the theory and educate the team on how each portion of the flash is meant to work. You provided us with areas to look into when we were lost with what to do next! With your guidance our team was able to address the root causes for our issues..

Send Travis here more often. I value the hours I was able to learn from such an amazing, humble, passionate, and inspirational Master Brewer.

Testamonials

Travis’ knowledge of brewing has depth and breadth; in both practical and technical aspects of brewing. He possesses keen observation skills and communicates clearly. He came into our brewery and truly hit the ground running.

Travis was able to provide immediate value once briefed on the challenges we presented. He liaised with industry peers on our behalf as a Subject Matter Expert and provided confidence that our project deliverables would be met. He comes with a diverse 'toolkit' and was able to leverage it to thoroughly assess our operation to identify gaps, contribute quick wins, and deliver new knowledge to team members in an effective teaching manner. I will continue to utilize Slant Six Consulting when expertise is needed.

"It was a no-brainer to have an expert like Travis Audet take a thoughtful, careful look at our process for points of improvement. His attention to detail and priority-driven thinking lead us to understand more about our systems as we worked through solutions together. Call him - yesterday isn't soon enough."

We had seen our consumer complaints for our beer increase steadily over time, to a point of needing drastic intervention. With Travis’s help we went through our entire process with a fine-tooth comb, looking for any opportunities to improve our drivers for the quality issue. With his practical guidance and deep knowledge, we made changes to multiple areas of the brewing process. With the combination of all of these changes we have seen zero complaints related to the original quality issue. The results really do speak for themselves!

Presentation Links

https://www.masterbrewerspodcast.com/guests/travis-audet

https://www.vermontbrewers.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Vermont-Craft-Brewers-Conference-Guide-2025-WEB.pdf

https://brewingsummit2025.eventscribe.net/speakers.asp?pfp=Browse+by+Speaker

https://www.mbaa.com/Technical-Quarterly-2023

https://community.mbaa.com/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=49c9bda5-3a62-4c8a-a24d-018b9716edd3&CommunityKey=d2f2ec04-367a-4bfe-9caf-1a5e271af673&Home=/home

https://www.brewersassociation.org/seminars/brewing-co2-safety-monitoring-and-production-best-practices/

https://asbc.confex.com/asbc/2018/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1840

https://www.mibeer.com/Resources/News-Features/michigan-craft-brewing-industry-to-return-to-kalamazoo-january-9-11-2019-for-annual-conference-trade-show

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