Treatment of malt to reduce stale flavor in beer
AssigneePollock International Limited
InventorsJames R. A. Pollock, Anthony R. Dale
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Abstract
Stale flavor formation in beer is reduced by contracting malt, prior to extracting to produce wort, with a primary or secondary mono- or polyhydric alcohol or with acetic acid or with dimethylsulfoxide to reduce the amount of precursors of 2-trans-nonenal present in the malt.
Claims7
In a method of producing a wort for use in brewing which comprises extracting a ground malt with hot water to orm a wort and separating the wort from insolublematter, the improvement which comprises reducing the tendency of beers made from such worts to give stale flavors of the type characterized by 2-trans-nonenal by contacting, prior to extracting the ground malt with hot water, malt or ground malt with an organic substance selected from the group consisting of methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, 2-propanol, 2-butanol, isoamyl alcohol, 2-phenylethanol, dimethylsulfoxide, acetic acid, and propylene glycol to reduce the amount of precursors of 2-trans-nonenal present in said malt or ground malt.
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