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US 2003/0148012 A1Published application
Treatment of germinating malting grain
OwnerLionel Scottinventor
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A method of treating malting grain, in which the grian is subjected to a water restriction stress after commencement of germination under normal conditions. The grain is germinated in a grain-germinating environment but before completion of germination is subjected to said water-restriction stress by reducing the amount of water available to the grain within said environment. This is done for at least one time-interval sufficient to modify, as compared with normally-germinated grain, at least one of the following parameters, namely: (i) the amount of soluble sugars in a hot water extract; (ii) the alpha-amylase level; (iii) the degree of root and shoot growth; (iv) the total nitrogen content and the soluble nitrogen ratio; and/or (v) the diastatic power; as determined in the germinated and thus-treated grain. Preferably the water restriction stress is imparted by lowering the relative humiditity of air flowing around the grain within a germination environment to below 95%. The invention also relates to grain treated by such methods and malt produced from such grain.
A method of treatment of malting grain, in which the grain after commencement of germination under normal conditions within a grain-germinating environment but before completion thereof is subjected to water-restriction stress by reducing the amount of water available to the grain but maintaining an adequate oxygen supply to the grain within said environment for at least one time-interval sufficient to modify, as compared with conventionally germinated non water stressed grain, at least one of the following parameters, namely:
A method of treatment of malting grain comprising the steps of:
A method as claimed in any of the preceding claims, wherein the grains are held in a germination chamber and the process is carried out therein.
A method as claimed in any of the preceding claims, wherein the malting grain is selected from barley, wheat, sorghum, maize and rye.
A method of arresting rootlet growth in germinating grain including the step of incubating the grain in a grain germinating environment In which the amount of available water is controlled so as to subject the grains to a mild water restriction stress for a time interval suitable to inhibit metabolic process directed to rootlet growth but which does not substantially inhibit other vital metabolic processes in the grain.
30 Treated green malt in which, at least one of the following parameters, namely:
Dried treated malted grain in which, at least one of the following parameters, namely:
Dried treated malted grain in which, at least one of the following parameters, namely:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.