USE OF STEVIOL GLYCOSIDE IN MALT PRODUCTION Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC C12C1/47 C12C1/27 C12C1/00 

FIELD: brewing industry.

SUBSTANCE: method for producing malt includes soaking cereal grains in water, adding at least one steviol glycoside to the soaked cereal grains to form a mixture, germinating the mixture, drying the germinated grains to obtain a malt product having a moisture content of 2 wt.% to 10 wt.%, in which: germination is carried out for a sufficient period of time so that the average sprout length of more than 80% of cereal grains becomes at least 1.5 times the length of the kernel, or for a time that is at least 12 hours less than at germination without steviol glycoside, or for a period of time that is reduced by at least about 10% compared to the germination time without steviol glycoside, and in which the malt product has: fine milling extract content from 79 wt.% to 90 wt.%, viscosity from 1.0 cP to 1.6 cP, protein content from 8 wt.% to 13 wt.%, content of soluble nitrogen from 650 mg/100 g of malt to 800 mg/100 g of malt, or a combination of any two or more of them.

EFFECT: method allows to reduce the time of germination and withdrawal of grain from dormancy while maintaining or improving the quality of the malt.

13 cl, 10 dwg, 6 tbl, 2 ex