US 12,031,114 B2
Refined cereal-based beverages
Birgitte Skadhauge, Birkerod (DK); Finn Lok, Valby (DK); Søren Knudsen, Malov (DK); Toni Wendt, Frederiksberg (DK); Katarzyna Krucewicz, Soborg (DK); Lucia Marri, Frederiksberg (DK); and Ole Olsen, Copenhagen S (DK)
Assigned to Carlsberg Breweries A/S, Copenhagen V (DK)
Filed by Carlsberg Breweries A/S, Copenhagen V (DK)
Filed on May 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/828,247.
Application 17/828,247 is a continuation of application No. 16/311,348, granted, now 11,384,322, previously published as PCT/EP2017/065498, filed on Jun. 23, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 16177402 (EP), filed on Jul. 1, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0389353 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. C12C 1/047 (2006.01); C12C 1/02 (2006.01); C12C 7/047 (2006.01)
CPC C12C 1/047 (2013.01) [C12C 1/02 (2013.01); C12C 7/047 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for producing an aqueous extract of a cereal, said method comprising the steps of:
A. providing germinated grains of a cereal having a water content of at least 20% with the proviso that said cereal grains have not had a water content below 20% at any time subsequent to germination,
wherein the cereal is a barley characterized by carrying a mutation in the gene encoding MMT, and
wherein the entire time for steeping and germination to provide said germinated grains did not exceed 72 hours (h), and
wherein the germinated grains have been prepared by steeping and germination comprising incubating said grains in an aqueous solution while 02 is passed through said aqueous solution;
B. finely dividing said germinated grains, while said germinated grains have a water content of at least 20%; and
C. preparing an aqueous extract of said finely divided germinated grains, thereby producing an aqueous extract of the cereal.