Method of making alcohol concentrate
AssigneePat's Backcountry Beverages, Inc.
InventorPatrick J. Tatera
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Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention is a nested fermentation method for making a beverage, such as an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beer, a wine, or the like, the method comprising the steps of: (1) performing a first fermentation process on first fermentation ingredients to form a first solution; (2) removing a first collection of alcohol, aromatics, and water from the first solution to generate an intermediate solution; (3) adding additional fermentation ingredients to the intermediate solution; (4) removing additional alcohol, aromatics, and water from the intermediate solution after fermentation of the additional fermentation ingredients; (5) repeating steps (3) and (4) as necessary to create a concentrated solution; and (6) adding aromatics and/or alcohol to the concentrated solution.
Claims17
A method for making a concentrated solution that can be used to generate a beverage, the method comprising the steps of:
- (1) performing a first fermentation process on first fermentation ingredients to form a first solution;
- (2) removing a first collection of alcohol, aromatics, and water from the first solution to generate an intermediate solution;
- (3) adding additional fermentation ingredients to the intermediate solution;
- (4) performing fermentation of the additional fermentation ingredients in the intermediate solution;
- (5) removing additional alcohol, aromatics, and water from the intermediate solution after fermentation of the additional fermentation ingredients;
- (6) repeating steps (3) through (5) as necessary to create a concentrated solution;
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- (7) adding aromatics and/or alcohol to the concentrated solution.
A method for making a beverage, the method comprising:
- performing a first fermentation step using a first set of fermentation ingredients to create a first fermented solution;
- removing a first collection of alcohol, aromatics, and water from the first fermented solution to create a first intermediate solution;
- adding a second set of fermentation ingredients to the first intermediate solution;
- performing a second fermentation step using the second set of fermentation ingredients in the first intermediate solution to create a second fermented solution;
- creating a concentrated beverage, wherein creating the concentrated beverage comprises using the second fermented solution and at least a portion of a previous collection of alcohol and aromatics.
A method for nested fermentation, the method comprising:
- (a) fermenting a first set of fermentation ingredients in a solution in a fermentation tank;
- (b) removing alcohol, aromatics, and water from the solution in the fermentation tank;
- (c) adding additional fermentation ingredients to the solution in the fermentation tank;
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- (d) fermenting the additional fermentation ingredients in the solution;
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- (e) performing steps (b), (c), and (d) one or more times to obtain a final fermented solution.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.