Method of treating wood and treated wood for use in flavoring aqueous food products and resulting products
AssigneeKairos, L.L.C.
InventorsRemy F. Gross, II, Charles Barbier
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Abstract
Disclosed is a process for treating wood particles for use in flavoring aqueous liquids to mask undesirable taste components and to increase the extractability and reactivity of flavor enhancing components. Wood particles are contacted with a solution of aqueous ethanol, the solids separated and heated for at least fifteen minutes at temperatures up to 220° C. Also disclosed is a process for using such wood particles for treatment of aqueous liquids and aqueous liquids treated with such wood particles.
Claims6
A wood product capable of flavoring ethanol-containing beverages selected from the group consisting of whiskies, rum, brandy, armagnac, cognac, and eau de vie prepared by the process comprising:
- (a) comminuting wood pieces obtained from a species of tree useful in imparting flavor components to said ethanol-containing beverages;
- (b) extracting taste components undesirable in said ethanol-containing beverages from the wood pieces of step (a) using wash comprising at least about 50% to at most about 95% ethanol in water;
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- (c) roasting the washed wood pieces of step (b) at a temperature of at least about 100 Celsius.
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