Process for producing beer of the vollbier type

• US 3,402,048 A
• Filed: 08/30/1965
• Issued: 09/17/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Theo Hank
• Original Assignee: Theo Hank
• Inventors: THEO HANK
• Application Number:
  US04/483,782
• Time in Patent Office: 1,114 Days
• US Class Current: 426/16
• CPC Class Codes: C12C 1/18 Preparation of malt extract or of special kinds of malt, e.g. caramel, black malt malt products for use as foodstuffs A23L
• CPC Class Codes: C12C 11/00 Fermentation processes for beer preparation of wine C12G1/00
• CPC Class Codes: C12C 12/00 Processes specially adapted for making special kinds of beer
• CPC Class Codes: C12C 12/04 Beer with low alcohol content methods for reducing the alcohol content after fermentation C12H3/00
• CPC Class Codes: C12C 3/00 Treatment of hops
• CPC Class Codes: C12C 5/00 Other raw materials for the preparation of beer
• CPC Class Codes: C12C 7/205 Boiling with hops
• CPC Class Codes: C12C 9/00 Methods specially adapted for the making of beerwort
• CPC Class Codes: C12C 9/02 Beerwort treatment; Boiling with hops; Hop extraction
• CPC Class Codes: C12H 1/00 Pasteurisation, sterilisation, preservation, purification, clarification, or ageing of alcoholic beverages simulating ageing by flavouring C12G3/06

Claims

1. IN A PROCESS OF PRODUCING A STABLE BEER OF THE "VOLLBIER" TYPE, THE STEPS WHICH COMPRISE (A) SUBDIVIDING THE WORT INTO A FIRST WORT AND A SECOND WORT, (B) BOILING THE FIRST WORT WITH AN AMOUNT OF HOPS AND ACIDIFIED MALT AS REQUIRED FOR THE ENTIRE WORT, (C) FERMENTING THE BOILED FIRST WORT, (D) BOILING THE SECOND WORT WITHOUT ADDITION OF HOPS AND ACIDIFIED MALT, (E) TREATING THE SECOND WORT WITH AN ADSORBENT, (F) MIXING THE FERMENTED FIRST WORT WITH THE ADSORBENTTREATED SECOND WORT, AND (G) SUBJECTING THE MIXTURE TO FINAL FERMENTATION.