MUMBAI, India, July 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617075184 A) filed by Heineken Supply Chain B. V. on June 17, 2026, for Energy Efficient Process For The Production Of Fermented Malt Beverages.
Inventors include Bekkers, Augustinus Cornelius Aldegonde Petrus; and Hoekman, Christine Lidian.
The application for the patent was published on July 10, 2026, under issue no. 28/2026.
Abstract: The invention relates to a process of producing a fermented malt beverage that comprises the following steps: a) preparing an aqueous malt mixture comprising water and malt; b) preparing a mash by mashing the aqueous malt mixture; c) separating the mash into wort and spent grain; d) holding the wort at a temperature of at least 70°C for a time period of at least 5 minutes to produce a heated wort; e) cooling the heated wort to a temperature of less than 30°C to produce a cooled wort; and f) contacting the cooled wort with active yeast for at least 8 hours to produce a fermented wort; wherein the temperature of the wort is maintained below 90 °C between steps c) and f); wherein boiling of the wort is avoided; wherein hot trub is removed from the heated wort prior to step f); and wherein an anionic flocculant is added to the wort prior to the removal of the hot trub. The invention also provides a beer characterised by a total dimethyl sulphide content of at least 50 µg/L, a difference between the total dimethyl sulphide content and the free dimethyl sulphide content in the range of 40-250 µg/L and a thiobarbituric acid number of 16-33.
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