Method of Making a Beverage in a Beverage Making Machine

A method of making a beverage, in a beverage making machine, the method increasing the retained volume of gas in the beverage after dispense into a vessel, by mixing a beverage diluent liquid with at least ones of a beverage ingredient to form an enhanced beverage diluent liquid, and then dissolving a gas into the enhanced beverage diluent liquid versus dissolving the gas into the beverage diluent liquid only, the method comprising:

• selecting a beverage type containing a sweetener, a non-nutritive sweetener, or a combination thereof, wherein two of the beverage ingredient can be the sweetener and the non-nutritive sweetener and the beverage making machine further comprising a dissolver which further comprises a gas inlet, a sweetener inlet, a non-nutritive sweetener inlet, a beverage diluent liquid inlet, at least a first, and second dissolving chamber each having an inlet end for receiving the sweetener, the non-nutritive sweetener and the beverage diluent liquid, and an outlet end where the sweetener, the non-nutritive sweetener, the beverage diluent liquid, and combinations thereof can exit the dissolving chamber, each of the first and second dissolving chamber is partitioned and arranged to prevent mixing between the first and second dissolving chamber, each of the first and second dissolving chamber is also arranged to allow the gas supplied, from the gas inlet, to permeate liquids in each of the first and second dissolving chamber;
• a) in the case the beverage type selected contains the sweetener;
• mixing, on inlet into the dissolver, a predefined ratio of the beverage diluent liquid from the beverage diluent liquid inlet with the sweetener from the sweetener inlet to form the enhanced beverage diluent liquid;
• directing fluid flow of the enhanced beverage diluent liquid into the first dissolving chamber;
• and
• continuing at the step of injecting;
• b) in the case the beverage type selected contains the non-nutritive sweetener;
• mixing, on inlet into the dissolver, a predefined ratio of a beverage diluent liquid from the beverage diluent liquid inlet with the non-nutritive sweetener from the non-nutritive sweetener inlet to form the enhanced beverage diluent liquid;
• and
• directing fluid flow of the enhanced beverage diluent liquid into the second dissolving chamber;
• injecting the gas into the dissolver at a gas dissolving pressure to cause the gas to dissolve into the enhanced beverage diluent liquid;
• dispensing the beverage from the beverage making machine into a vessel;
• wherein as the beverage leaves the higher pressure environment of the dissolver and enters standard atmospheric conditions of the vessel, the enhanced beverage diluent liquid causes the gas to be retained in the beverage in higher concentration, instead of being more easily released to the atmosphere, such that the volumes of the gas in the beverage, after dispense, is increased versus having dissolved the gas into the beverage diluent liquid only.

A beverage making machine for making a beverage having an increased retained volume of a gas in the beverage after dispense into a vessel, by mixing a beverage diluent liquid with at least ones of a beverage ingredient to form an enhanced beverage diluent liquid, and then dissolving the gas into the enhanced beverage diluent liquid versus dissolving the gas into the beverage diluent liquid only, the beverage making machine comprising:

• at least one of a beverage ingredient receptacle for receiving a beverage making cartridge comprising at least one of a beverage ingredient;
• a beverage diluent receptacle for supplying a beverage diluent liquid;
• a gas storage tank for supplying the gas;
• and
• a dissolver comprising a gas inlet, a sweetener inlet, a non-nutritive sweetener inlet, a beverage diluent liquid inlet, at least a first, and a second dissolving chamber each having an inlet end for receiving the sweetener, the non-nutritive sweetener and the beverage diluent liquid, and an outlet end where the sweetener, the non-nutritive sweetener, the beverage diluent liquid, and combinations thereof can exit, each of the first and second dissolving chamber is partitioned and arranged to prevent mixing between the first and second dissolving chamber, each of the first and second dissolving chamber is also arranged to allow the gas supplied, from the gas inlet, to permeate liquids in each of the first and second dissolving chamber;
• a computer control comprising a computer readable medium encoded with instructions for mixing on inlet into the dissolver a predefined ratio of a beverage diluent liquid and a beverage ingredient to form an enhanced beverage diluent liquid, the beverage ingredient being a sweetener or a non-nutritive sweetener or a combination thereof;
• injecting the gas into the dissolver at a gas dissolving pressure to cause the gas to dissolve into the enhanced beverage diluent liquid;
• dissolving a predetermined amount of the gas into the enhanced beverage diluent liquid;
• mixing the enhanced beverage diluent liquid with at least one of a second beverage ingredient to form the beverage;
• and
• dispensing the beverage from the beverage making machine into a vessel;
• wherein as the beverage leaves the higher pressure environment of the dissolver and enters standard atmospheric conditions of the vessel, the enhanced beverage diluent liquid causes the gas to be retained in the beverage in higher concentration, instead of being more easily released to the atmosphere, such that the volumes of the gas in the beverage, after dispense, is increased versus having dissolved the gas into the beverage diluent liquid only.

A beverage making machine for making a beverage having an increased retained volume of a gas in the beverage after dispense into a vessel, by mixing a beverage diluent liquid with at least ones of a beverage ingredient to form an enhanced beverage diluent liquid, and then dissolving the gas into the enhanced beverage diluent liquid versus dissolving the gas into the beverage diluent liquid only, the beverage making machine comprising:

• at least one of a beverage ingredient receptacle for receiving a beverage making cartridge comprising at least one of a beverage ingredient;
• a beverage diluent receptacle for supplying a beverage diluent liquid;
• a gas storage tank for supplying the gas;
• and
• a dissolver comprising a gas inlet, a sweetener inlet, a non-nutritive sweetener inlet, a beverage diluent liquid inlet;
• at least a first, and a second dissolving chamber each having an inlet end for receiving the sweetener, the non-nutritive sweetener and the beverage diluent liquid, and an outlet end where the sweetener, the non-nutritive sweetener, the beverage diluent liquid, and combinations thereof can exit, each of the first and second dissolving chamber is partitioned and arranged to prevent mixing between the first and second dissolving chamber, each of the first and second dissolving chamber is also arranged to allow the gas supplied, from the gas inlet, to permeate liquids in each of the first and second dissolving chamber;
• a computer control comprising a computer readable medium encoded with instructions for selecting a beverage type containing a sweetener, a non-nutritive sweetener, or a combination thereof, wherein two of the beverage ingredient can be the sweetener and the non-nutritive sweetener;
• and
• c) in the case the beverage type selected contains the sweetener;
• mixing, on inlet into the dissolver, a predefined ratio of a beverage diluent liquid from the beverage diluent inlet with the sweetener from the sweetener inlet to form the enhanced beverage diluent liquid;
• directing fluid flow of the enhanced beverage diluent liquid into the first dissolving chamber;
• and
• continuing at the step of injecting;
• d) in the case the beverage type selected contains the non-nutritive sweetener;
• mixing, on inlet into the dissolver, a predefined ratio of a beverage diluent liquid from the beverage diluent inlet with the non-nutritive sweetener from the non-nutritive sweetener inlet to form the enhanced beverage diluent liquid;
• directing fluid flow of the enhanced beverage diluent liquid into the second dissolving chamber;
• injecting the gas into the dissolver at a gas dissolving pressure to cause the gas to dissolve into the enhanced beverage diluent liquid;
• and
• dispensing the beverage from the beverage making machine into a vessel;
• wherein as the beverage leaves the higher pressure environment of the dissolver and enters standard atmospheric conditions of the vessel, the enhanced beverage diluent liquid causes the gas to be retained in the beverage in higher concentration, instead of being more easily released to the atmosphere, such that the volumes of the gas in the beverage, after dispense, is increased versus having dissolved the gas into the beverage diluent liquid only.