US 12,084,636 B2
Flavor enhanced hop materials
Iain W. H. Oswald, Tustin, CA (US); Marcos A. Ojeda, Tustin, CA (US); Eugene Lee, Tustin, CA (US); Kevin A. Koby, Tustin, CA (US); Ross W. Hunsinger, Tustin, CA (US); and Thomas J. Martin, Jr., Tustin, CA (US)
Assigned to Abstrax Tech Inc., Tustin, CA (US)
Filed by Abstrax Tech Inc., Tustin, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/377,229.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/413,409, filed on Oct. 5, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0117282 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. C12C 5/02 (2006.01); C11B 1/10 (2006.01); C12C 3/08 (2006.01)
CPC C12C 5/026 (2013.01) [C11B 1/10 (2013.01); C12C 3/08 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for infusing a hop material with a flavorant matrix, the method comprising:
providing an emulsified flavorant matrix comprising a flavorant additive emulsified in a carrier system; and
infusing the hop material with the emulsified flavorant matrix to form an infused hop material;
wherein the hop material comprises raw beer, hops, hop pellets, raw vegetal material derived from hops, or a cryogenically prepared hop lupulin.