Alcoholic beverage and method of making the same
OwnerDouglas B. Hall, Bruce Forsee +2inventors
InventorsDouglas B. Hall, Bruce Forsee, Joseph M. Girgash, James J. Beaupre
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Abstract
The present invention is an alcoholic beverage having the sensory characteristics of a traditionally aged, distilled spirit. The method for making the alcoholic beverage includes introducing a ratio of wood chips to a distilled spirit and applying pressure to create interaction between the wood chips and distilled spirit.
Claims20
A method for imparting the sensory characteristics of a more matured alcoholic beverage to an alcoholic beverage, the steps being comprised of:
- introducing an alcoholic beverage to a container;
- sealing the container such that the container is a closed system with a fixed mass of gas;
- heating the container until an internal pressure of the container reaches a predetermined maximum pressure of 20 psi;
- cooling the container until the internal pressure reaches a predetermined lower pressure;
- and
- cycling the heating step and the cooling step from 2 to 10 times, wherein the container is sealed for a duration of the step of cycling the heating step and the cooling step, and wherein the method has a total process time of less than a day.
A method for imparting the sensory characteristics of a more matured alcoholic beverage to an alcoholic beverage, the steps being comprised of:
- introducing an alcoholic beverage to a container;
- sealing the container such that the container is a closed system with a fixed mass of gas;
- heating the container until an internal pressure of the container reaches a predetermined maximum pressure;
- cooling the container until the internal pressure reaches a predetermined lower pressure;
- and
- cycling the heating step and the cooling step from 2 to 10 times, wherein the container is sealed for a duration of the step of cycling the heating step and the cooling step,
- wherein wood chips are not introduced to the container in the method and wherein the method has a total process time of less than a day.
A finished alcoholic beverage having the sensory characteristics of a more matured alcoholic beverage produced by the steps comprising:
- introducing an alcoholic beverage to a container;
- sealing the container such that the container is a closed system with a fixed mass of gas;
- heating the container until an internal pressure of the container reaches a predetermined maximum pressure;
- cooling the container until the internal pressure reaches a predetermined lower pressure;
- and
- cycling the heating step and the cooling step over a time period of less than a day, wherein the container is sealed for a duration of the step of cycling the heating step and the cooling step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.