CA1313833C - Method of producing alcohol-free or low alcohol beer - Google Patents

Method of producing alcohol-free or low alcohol beer

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CA1313833C
CA1313833C CA000512517A CA512517A CA1313833C CA 1313833 C CA1313833 C CA 1313833C CA 000512517 A CA000512517 A CA 000512517A CA 512517 A CA512517 A CA 512517A CA 1313833 C CA1313833 C CA 1313833C
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Christian Zuercher
Ruediger Gruss
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C12BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
    • C12CBEER; PREPARATION OF BEER BY FERMENTATION; PREPARATION OF MALT FOR MAKING BEER; PREPARATION OF HOPS FOR MAKING BEER
    • C12C12/00Processes specially adapted for making special kinds of beer
    • C12C12/04Beer with low alcohol content
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    • C12BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
    • C12CBEER; PREPARATION OF BEER BY FERMENTATION; PREPARATION OF MALT FOR MAKING BEER; PREPARATION OF HOPS FOR MAKING BEER
    • C12C3/00Treatment of hops
    • C12C3/04Conserving; Storing; Packing
    • C12C3/08Solvent extracts from hops
    • C12C3/10Solvent extracts from hops using carbon dioxide
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    • C12BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
    • C12CBEER; PREPARATION OF BEER BY FERMENTATION; PREPARATION OF MALT FOR MAKING BEER; PREPARATION OF HOPS FOR MAKING BEER
    • C12C11/00Fermentation processes for beer
    • C12C11/003Fermentation of beerwort
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    • C12BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
    • C12CBEER; PREPARATION OF BEER BY FERMENTATION; PREPARATION OF MALT FOR MAKING BEER; PREPARATION OF HOPS FOR MAKING BEER
    • C12C7/00Preparation of wort
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    • C12BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
    • C12GWINE; PREPARATION THEREOF; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; PREPARATION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES NOT PROVIDED FOR IN SUBCLASSES C12C OR C12H
    • C12G3/00Preparation of other alcoholic beverages
    • C12G3/02Preparation of other alcoholic beverages by fermentation
    • C12G3/021Preparation of other alcoholic beverages by fermentation of botanical family Poaceae, e.g. wheat, millet, sorghum, barley, rye, or corn
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    • C12BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
    • C12GWINE; PREPARATION THEREOF; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; PREPARATION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES NOT PROVIDED FOR IN SUBCLASSES C12C OR C12H
    • C12G3/00Preparation of other alcoholic beverages
    • C12G3/02Preparation of other alcoholic beverages by fermentation
    • C12G3/025Low-alcohol beverages

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

Thermal breaking down of malt draff, either from a full or strong beer strike or from a protein fraction obtained from the malt draff during the feed draff meal production, in a draff mash by digesting, cooking or autoclaving. Enzymic break-down of the draff mash after heating thereof and cooling down to 45 to 72°C, is carried out by addition of 10 to 30% of coarsely ground malt referred to the malt quantity from the preceding strike.

Description

rrhe present invention relates to a method of producing alcohol-free or low-alcohol beer.
Alcohol-free and low-aleohol beverages have enjoyed increasing -technological and economic interest in reeen-t years. Among them, alcohol-free and low-alcohol beers assume a special position, since the consumer expeets them not only to have lower or almost comple-tely absent alcohol content, bu-t also in terms of taste to be fully eom~arable with eonventional beer. Consumer interest in beers of that kind in that case prineipally results from increasing ealorie eonseiousness, traffie legislation beeoming inereasingly restrie-tive in respeet of the permissible blood-aleohol eontent, and aleohol prohibition, motivated by work safety regulations, in faetories.
The produetion of aleohol-free or low-alcohol beer has been carried out by different methods in the brewery industry for many years. A basic problem in produetion of beers of that kind consists in achieving as close as possible an equivalent in terms of taste between aleohol-free or low-aleohol beers and eonventional beers, which is not always achieved by -the known methods.
Refreshment beverages, such as those produeed from beer wort through lactic acid fermentation (ef. DT-PS
151 123 and 22 12 263) or aleohol-free refreshment beverage produced from beer draff aeeording to DT-PS 8 90 634, eannot eoun-t as proper beer substitutes, since in terms of taste they are completely different from beer.
The same applies to the methods of DT-PS 2 42 144 and 6 24 614, according to which fermentation is earried out wi-th the use of neetar yeasts or of yeasts cultivated purely from fruit.

~3~3833 Apart Erom the alcohol content oE the beer, the question of taste in particular plays a dec~isive role.
The known methods endeavour to keep the ratio between fermentable and unfermentable extract in the finished beer as small as possible in order to take out an undesired beer-wort-like taste and unpleasant sweetness from the finished beer. In processes in which the fermentation is stopped this aim could not be achieved to full satisEac-tion. The same is true of efforts to effec-t subsequent removal of alcohol from normal full beer.
When natural hops or a hops extract which has been extracted with organic solvents is or are cooked in the wort for bittering of -the beer and fermen-tation of this wort is stopped at any instant for limitation of the alcohol content, beers of -that kind are usually unaccep-table as being too beer-wort-like in taste.
Natural hops or hops extracts may thus, for the avoidance of a wor-t taste in the beer, not or only to a small part be cooked along with the wort.
Apart from the addition of iso-alpha-acids to the finished beer, which, however, is not permitted by reason of the beer tax law (purity degree), the problem arises of a sui-table method for the hopping of the wort while avoiding a wort-like taste in the finished beer.
There is thus a need for production of alcohol-free or low-alcohol beer which in respect of taste as well as physical and chemical properties apart from the alcohol content represents a substitute product for conventional beer.
According to the prevent invention there is provided a method of producing alcohol-free or low-alcohol beer, comprising the step of carrying out thermal ,' ~

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~313~33 break-dowll oE malt d:raff, e:ittler from a full or strong beer strike or from a protein fraction ob-tained from the malt draff duri.ng the feed draEf meal production, in a draff mash through digesting, cooking or autoclaving, wherein enzymic hreak-down of the draff mash, after heating thereof and cooling down to 45 to 72C, is carried out by addi-tion of 10 to 30% of coarsely ground malt refe.rred to the malt quantity from the precedlng strike.
In such a method, the path is taken of obtaining a part of the unfermentable ex-tract from spent malt. This spent rnalt ext.ract is highly foam-active and appreciably improves the durability of the foam of the alcohol-free or low-alcohol beer thus produced.
The method may comprise the preliminary step of subjecting the draff, obtained from a beer strike, to homogenisation, extrusion or~Mechanical separation of insoluble husk components.
. The method may include the steps of adding coarsely ground malt, which has been preliminarily mashed in cold water, in a quantity of 40 to 90% referred to the malt quantity from the preceding strike to the draff mash heated to 80 to 85 C for the obtaining of a wort with a final degree of fermentation of at most 60%, wherein the quantity of water used for -the preliminary washing is such that the temperature of the resultant total mash is 70 to 74C and is maintained up to iodine test colour normality.
Preferably the wort with 6 to 10 alpha-acids per hectolitre of extra wort in the form of hops ex-tract 30 obtained during supercritical carbon dioxide extraction is cooked for at least 90 minutes to a concentration which corresponds to a draught beer wort, and the wort is then fermented up to an alcohol content of at most 0.5% for :
:~ -3-alcohol-free beer ancl 0.5% to 1.5% for low-alcohol beer.
The fermentation of the wort may be carried out under carbon dioxide for carbonic acid enrichment.
Rxpediently, the e:Efect of the yeast is cancelled by separati.on, for example fil-tration or precipitation, or by de-activation through short term heating of the beer.
The method may comprise the fur-ther steps of storing the beer for at least 14 days a-t temperatures in the region of -the freezing point of the beer and separation of the turbid matter formed, and pas-teurising the beer after racking or heating the beer for a short time and subsequently racking it at at least 60C.
An example of the method of the presen-t invention will now be more particularly described in the following:-Example - An alcohol-free draught beer was produced by the following method steps:
1. Cooking of draff of 3500 kilograms of malt in 55 hectolitres of last run of wort and cooling down to 52C through circulating by pumping as well as addition of 50 hectolitres of cold water;
2. Adding to the mash 650 kilograms of coarsely ground malt in 16 hectolitres of cold water (temperature of the mash: 48C);
3. Addition of 1950 kilograms of coarsely ground malt to the draff mash at 80 C (resultant temperature of the total mash: 72 C);
4. (Hops addition) 5 kilograms of alpha-40 as carbon dioxide extract (cooking time of the wort: 120 minutes; run of wort from the vat: 260 hectolitres).

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~313~33 Analysis o~ the alcohol-free draught beer producecl by this Method yielded the following result:
Apparent extract % 6.40 Real extract % 6.60 Alcohol % 0.46 Original wort content % 7.5 Finally ~erMented apparent extract % 3.2 pH-value 4.55 Colour, EBC 7.6 10 Carbonic acid % 0.53 Bitter units, EBC 33.0 Foam durability, "R. u. C." 130 Glucose, grams per 100 millilitres 0.2 Fructose, grams per 100 millilitres 0.1 Saccarose, grams per 100 millilitres 0.1 ! Maltose, grams per 100 millilitres 2.6 Maltotriose, grams per 100 millilitres 0.5 Ethyl acetate, milligrams per litre 3.1 i-amyl acetate, milligrams per litre 0.25 20 Ethyl capronate, milligrams per litre 0.03 Ethyl caprylate, milligrams per litre 0.05 2-phenyl ethyl acetate, milligrams per litre 0.02 i-butanol, milligrams per litre 1.1 i-amyl alcohols, milligrams per litre 13.7 2-phenyl ethyl alcohol, milligrams per litre 3.6 Caprylic acid, mi]ligrams per litre 6.2 Dimethyl sulphide, grams per litre 42.0 Vicinal diketone, milligrams per litre 0.11

Claims (8)

1. A method of producing alcohol-free or low-alcohol beer, comprising the step of carrying out thermal break-down of malt draff, either from a full or strong beer strike or from a protein fraction obtained from the malt draff during the feed draff meal production, in a draff mash through digesting, cooking or autoclaving, wherein enzymic breakdown of the draff mash, after heating thereof and cooling down to 45 to 72°C, is carried out by addition of 10 to 30% of coarsely ground malt based on the malt quantity from the preceding strike.
2. A method as claimed in claim 1, comprising the preliminary step of subjecting the draff, obtained from a beer strike, to homogenisation, extrusion or mechanical separation of insoluble husk components.
3. A method as claimed in claim 1, comprising the steps of adding coarsely ground malt, which has been preliminarily mashed in cold water, in a quantity of 40 to 90% based on the malt quantity from the preceding strike to the draff mash heated to 80 to 85°C for the obtaining of a wort with a final degree of fermentation of at most 60%, wherein the quantity of water used for the preliminary mashing is such that the temperature of the resultant total mash is 70 to 74°C and is maintained up to iodine test colour normality.
4. A method as claimed in claim 3, wherein a wort with 6 to 10 alpha-acids per hectolitre of finished wort in the form of hops extract obtained during supercritical carbon dioxide extraction is cooked for at least 90 minutes to a concentration which corresponds to a draught beer wort, and the wort is then fermented up to an alcohol content of at most 0.5% for alcohol-free beer and 0.5% to 1.5% for low-alcohol beer.
5. A method as claimed in claim 4, which comprises fermenting the wort under carbon dioxide for carbonic acid enrichment.
6. A method as claimed in claim 1, which comprises separation or de-activation through short term heating of the beer to cancel effect of yeast.
7. A method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the cancellation of the effect of the yeast is carried out by precipitation or filtration.
8. A method as claimed in any one of claims 1-7, comprising the further steps of storing the beer for at least 14 days at temperatures in the region of the freezing point of the beer and separation of the turbid matter formed, and pasteurising the beer after racking or heating the beer for a short time and subsequently racking it at at least 60°C.
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