Preparation of low calorie beer
AssigneeMiller Brewing Company
InventorsCharles E. Lowery, George R. Duncombe, William F. Line, Etzer Chicoye
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Abstract
A superattenuated low calorie beer is prepared from a wort containing as a liquid adjunct a starch-derived syrup which contains dextrins by adding to the wort during fermentation a glucoamylase type debranching enzyme obtained from Schwanniomyces castellii.
Claims3
The method of preparing a superattenuated beer from a wort, which wort includes as a starch adjunct a syrup selected from a syrup prepared by the acid process and a syrup prepared by the acid-enzyme process comprising adding to said wort as the sole enzyme preparation a glucoamylase preparation extracted from Schwanniomyces castellii, said preparation being substantially free of .alpha.-amylase activity.
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