Hop extract
AssigneeHeineken Supply Chain B.V.
InventorPaulien Hollering
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Abstract
A process of preparing a liquid hop extract suspension or a liquid hop extract is disclosed, comprising: (a) providing a hop material selected from hops, dried hops, hop pellets and combinations thereof; (b) combining 100 parts by weight of aqueous liquid with 1-20 parts by weight of the hop material to produce a hop suspension containing at least 95 wt. % water; (c) maintaining the hop suspension at a temperature of 8-40° C. for at least 1 hour to produce a liquid hop extract suspension; and (d) subjecting the liquid hop extract suspension to solid-liquid separation to produce a liquid hop extract and hop residue. A method of producing a packaged carbonated low alcohol beer having an alcohol content of 0-1.5% ABV with the liquid hop extract suspension or the liquid hop extract is also disclosed.
Claims6
A method of producing a packaged carbonated beer having an alcohol content of 0-1.0% alcohol by volume (ABV), the method comprising:
- (a) providing a beer having an alcohol content of 0-1.5% ABV;
- (b) combining the beer with a liquid hop extract suspension or a liquid hop extract to produce a zesty beer;
- (c) carbonating the zesty beer to produce a carbonated beer having a dissolved carbon dioxide content of at least 2 g/L;
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- (d) packaging the carbonated beer in a sealed container;
- wherein the liquid hop extract suspension or a liquid hop extract has an ethanol content of not more than 1 vol. % and comprises:
- (i) 3-300 mg/L of alpha-acids selected from humulone, cohumulone, adhumulone, prehumulone, posthumulone and combinations thereof;
- (ii) 0.5-20 mg/L of iso-alpha acids selected from isohumulone, isocohumulone, isoadhumulone and combinations thereof;
- (iii) 500-20,000 ug/L of myrcene;
- (iv) 100-4,000 ug/L of beta-linalool;
- (v) 50-2,000 ug/L of geraniol;
- (vi) 10-400 ug/L of humulene;
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- (vii) 12-500 ug/L of limonene.
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