Refined Cereal-Based Beverages

A method for producing an aqueous extract of a cereal, said method comprising the steps of:

• A. providing germinated grains of a cereal having a water content of at least 20% with the proviso that said cereal grains have not had a water content below 20% at any time subsequent to germination,
• wherein the cereal is a barley characterized by carrying a mutation in the gene encoding MMT, and
• wherein the entire step of germinating said germinated grains did not exceed 72 hours (h);
• B. finely dividing said germinated grains, while said germinated grains have a water content of at least 20%;
• and
• C. preparing an aqueous extract of said finely divided germinated grains,
• thereby producing an aqueous extract of the cereal.