MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617091233 A) filed by Heineken Supply Chain B. V. on July 27, 2026, for Energy Efficient Process For The Production Of Lager Beer.
Inventors include Bekkers, Augustinus, Cornelius, Aldegonde, Petrus, Albert; and Hoekman, Christine, Lidian.
The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.
Abstract: The invention relates to a process of producing a lager beer that comprises the following steps: a) preparing an aqueous malt mixture comprising water and chit malt, wherein the chit malt provides 30-100 wt.% of the dry matter that is contained in the aqueous malt mixture; 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 12 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 a source of hop acids is added to the wort before the contacting of the cooled wort with active yeast, wherein the temperature of the wort is maintained below 90 °C between steps c) and f); and wherein boiling of the wort is avoided. Good quality flagger beers can be produced by this energy efficient process in which at least a part of the malt is replaced by chit malt and wherein the conventional wort boiling step is replaced by a mild heat treatment of the wort.
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