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US 6,419,829 B2Granted
Membrane process for making enhanced flavor fluids
AssigneeSpectrum Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsSa V. Ho, P. Wayne Sheridan
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Abstract
A process using a hydrophobic membrane separation process for making an enhanced flavor fluid, particularly a low-alcohol brew, having improved flavor is disclosed.
Claims5
A process for making an enhanced flavor fluid having improved flavor, comprising:
- contacting a feed solution containing non-ethanol desirable flavor components and an undesirable component comprising ethanol with a surface of a hydrophobic membrane and contacting a pickup fluid with an opposing surface of said membrane, said pickup fluid containing less of said flavor components than said feed solution, and
- extracting desirable flavor components and not extracting a detrimental amount of ethanol from said feed solution into said pickup fluid to form said enhanced flavor fluid in said pickup fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.