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System and method for cold storage and hot or cold delivery of a brewed beverage

  • US 10,092,132 B1
  • Filed: 09/06/2017
  • Issued: 10/09/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of cold storage and at least hot delivery of a brewed beverage, consisting essentially of:

  • obtaining a container that contains a batch quantity of a brewed beverage, wherein said container containing said batch quantity of said brewed beverage is cooled or has been cooled to a cold storage temperature;

    coupling said container with a dispensing line;

    coupling said dispensing line with a tankless heat exchanger;

    providing a serving quantity comprising a single portion of said brewed beverage from said container along said dispensing line coupled to said container;

    beating said single portion of said brewed beverage with said tankless heat exchanger coupled with said dispensing line to a predefined serving temperature that is greater than said cold storage temperature,wherein said heating occurs on demand at a time of dispensing and at or near a point of dispensing while a remaining brewed batch of said brewed beverage in said container is maintained at said cold storage temperature; and

    ,dispensing said single portion of said brewed beverage from a dispenser tap coupled with said tankless heat exchanger.

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