Beverage and food production
AssigneeUgo Foods Group Limited
InventorCharles UGO
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Abstract
The invention relates to beverage and food production. It provides a novel process for the production of an improved beer-like beverage which is unprecedented in humankind's seven thousand years of beer-making history. As well as providing a pleasant tasting beer, the process is suited to integration with food-production leading to a reduction in food waste and greater efficiency. Aspects provide a beer and a production line, with a collection arrangement for collecting surplus or reject pasta for use in the novel process.
Claims22
A method of forming a beverage comprising:
- providing a supply of grain;
- forming the flour into a dough;
- processing the dough;
- at least partially cooking the processed dough in a moist steam environment with steam at a temperature of at least 90 degrees and less than 100 degrees Celsius so that starch in the grain at least partially gelatinizes to form a gelatinized dough mixture;
- forming a brewing mixture from the gelatinized dough mixture;
- fermenting the brewing mixture to provide an alcoholic beverage.
A method of producing a food product and a beverage comprising:
- providing a supply of milled grain;
- forming a dough from the milled grain by addition of water;
- extruding the dough or otherwise shaping the dough under pressure;
- subjecting the dough to at least partial cooking in steam;
- forming a pasta-like food product from a first portion of the cooked extruded or otherwise shaped dough at a processing station;
- collecting surplus or reject pasta from the processing station;
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- providing the collected surplus or reject pasta to a brewing process to produce an alcoholic beverage.
(canceled)
A production line for producing a pasta-like product comprising:
- an extruder for extruding pasta dough into a pasta-like food product or a sheeter/laminator to produce a thin sheet of pasta dough under pressure for use as pasta-like food products;
- a steam cooking station for at least partially cooking the extruded or sheet pasta dough;
- at least one further processing station comprising cutting, filling or packaging stations for further processing the at least partially cooked extruded or sheet pasta dough into pasta-like food product;
- a collecting arrangement at which surplus or reject pasta from the at least one further processing station is collected and supplied to a brewing process including a fermenting process in which an alcoholic beverage is made from the supplied surplus or reject pasta.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.