Brewing Process With Electrolytes
AssigneeZelus Beer Company, LLC
InventorsGeoffrey Pedder, Jonathan Goldstein
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Abstract
Methods and processes for brewing malt beverages with electrolytes are provided. In one embodiment of the invention, salts or electrolyte-yielding compounds are added in concentrations or levels greater than those currently believed to be practicable in the art. In some embodiments, the electrolyte-yielding compounds may be added in one or more stages of the brewing process. The methods presented provide flexibility in brewing malt beverages, including beer, with altered electrolyte levels, and alterations of one or more flavors.
Claims30
A method for brewing malt beverages using one or more pluralities of brewing ingredients and one or more pluralities of electrolyte-yielding compounds, the method comprising:
- mashing of a first plurality of the brewing ingredients, comprising strike water and grains, creating a plurality of mash comprising a plurality of wort and a plurality of residual grain;
- then
- sparging the plurality of residual grain with a second plurality of the brewing ingredients, creating a plurality of sparging water;
- then
- boiling the plurality of wort and the plurality of sparging water with a third plurality of the brewing ingredients, creating a plurality of altered wort;
- and then
- fermentation of the plurality of altered wort with a fourth plurality of brewing ingredients, resulting in a plurality of brewed malt beverage.
A method for regulating pH during the brewing process when brewing a malt beverage;
- in which said brewing process comprises mashing brewing ingredients creating wort and residual grain, sparging the residual grain creating sparging water, boiling the wort and sparging water creating altered wort, and fermenting the altered wort created a brewed malt beverage;
- the method comprising adding one or more pluralities of electrolyte-yielding compounds to regulate the pH of one or more of the brewing ingredients, the wort, the residual grain, the sparging water, the altered wort, and the brewed malt beverage.
A method for using one or more pluralities of electrolyte-yielding compounds to aid in the processing of brewing ingredients during one or more steps of the brewing process when brewing a malt beverage;
- in which said brewing process comprises the steps of mashing brewing ingredients creating wort and residual grain, sparging the residual grain creating sparging water, boiling the wort and sparging water creating altered wort, and fermenting the altered wort created a brewed malt beverage.
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