System and method for cold storage and hot or cold delivery of a brewed beverage

A method of cold storage and at least hot delivery of a brewed beverage, consisting essentially of:

• obtaining a container that contains a batch quantity of a brewed beverage, wherein said container containing said batch quantity of said brewed beverage is cooled or has been cooled to a cold storage temperature, wherein said container as obtained further contains a gas added to said container prior to said obtaining, and wherein said gas comprises nitrogen that displaces oxygen from the container to reduce or eliminate oxidation;
• maintaining said brewed beverage in said container at said cold storage temperature;
• coupling said container to a dispensing line;
• coupling said dispensing line with a tankless heat exchanger;
• providing a serving quantity comprising a single portion of said brewed beverage from said container along said dispensing line coupled to said container;
• accepting an input associated with a desired serving temperature;
• and,
• when said input indicates hot dispensing,
• heating said single portion of said brewed beverage via a tankless heat exchanger coupled with said dispensing line to a predefined serving temperature that is greater than said cold storage temperature,
• wherein said heating occurs on demand at a time of dispensing and at or near a point of dispensing while a remaining brewed batch of said brewed beverage in said container is maintained at said cold storage temperature;
• and,
• dispensing said single portion of said brewed beverage from a dispenser tap coupled with said tankless heat exchanger.

A system for cold storage and at least hot delivery of a brewed beverage, consisting essentially of:

• a container configured to contain a batch quantity of a brewed beverage wherein said container containing said batch quantity of said brewed beverage is cooled or has been cooled to a cold storage temperature;
• a dispensing line coupled to said container and configured to provide a serving quantity comprising a single portion of said brewed beverage from said container along said dispensing line;
• a tankless heat exchanger coupled with said dispensing line;
• wherein said tankless heat exchanger is configured to heat said single portion of said brewed beverage with said tankless heat exchanger coupled with said dispensing line to a predefined serving temperature that is greater than said cold storage temperature, and
• wherein said heat said single portion of said brewed beverage occurs on demand at a time of dispensing and at or near a point of dispensing while a remaining brewed batch of said brewed beverage is maintained at said cold storage temperature;
• and,
• a dispenser configured to dispense said single portion having said increase of said temperature from said dispensing line.