METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF COLOURING AND FLAVOURING BASE FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC C12H1/22 C12G3/07 C12G3/06 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: alcohol extract (65-96.6 vol. %) of oak timber produced of thermally treated timber or of an alcohol extract of dry agents previously produced by vapour-and-water extraction, with aroma-forming substances content 40-1000 mg/dm³ and phenolic substances content 600-2500 mg/dm³, and caramel colouring agent with a dry substances content of 55-70% are mixed in an amount providing for the weight ratio of aroma-forming and phenolic substances to dry substances of the colouring agent to be 0.003-0.09: 0.007-0.23: 1. The mixture is carefully stirred and filtered, concentrated till dry substances weight ratio is 60.0-68.5%. Alcohol is recovered and utilised. The produced base is similar to the extractive complex of vintage alcohols in terms of components ratio. The base high quality is stabile because its composition is regulated in terms of content of colouring, aromatic and flavouring agents charaterising the beverage quality. The taste grade of the base and the finished beverage is increased by 0.2-0.3 points.

EFFECT: base quality enhancement due to the content of aroma-forming, phenolic substances and colouring agent therein being as required for quality alcohol beverages, the base stability during storage increased by a factor of 2-3.

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