MALT-BASED LOW-ALCOHOLIC OR ALCOHOL-FREE FERMENTED BEVERAGE AND ITS PRODUCTION METHOD Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC C12C12/04 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to alcohol-free or low-alcoholic beer with alcohol content not in excess of 0.7 vol %, characterised by the ratio y≥Ax^b, where A=0.25 and b=1 and where x represents the ratio between nonfermentable and effective extracts where the nonfermentable extract represents the value of effective extract less total content of sweet sugars while y represents the ratio of sugars determined as the ratio of between the aggregate content of maltopentaose, maltohexaose and maltoheptaose and the total quantity of main sugars. The invention additionally relates to a method for production of alcohol-free or low-alcoholic beer including production of mash by way of mashing grain grits by way of inactivation of β-amylase and interaction of α-amylase with starch in the grits for production of wort with fermentative power not in excess of 29%, preferably - not in excess of 25%, still more preferably - not in excess of 20% and further fermentation of wort by way of cold contact.

EFFECT: invention is aimed at production of low-alcoholic or alcohol-free beer with a taste profile very similar to that of conventional lager beer.

13 cl, 3 dwg, 1 tbl