US 12,454,666 B2
Low-alcohol beer
Hilda Els Smit, Noorden (NL); Eric Richard Brouwer, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL); Augustinus Cornelius Aldegonde Petrus Albert Bekkers, Bunnik (NL); and Albert Doderer, Rijswijk (NL)
Assigned to Heineken Supply Chain B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
Filed by Heineken Supply Chain B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
Filed on Jun. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/208,509.
Application 18/208,509 is a division of application No. 17/265,604, previously published as PCT/NL2018/050589, filed on Sep. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0323259 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. C12C 12/04 (2006.01); C12C 11/00 (2006.01); C12C 12/00 (2006.01); C12H 3/02 (2019.01)
CPC C12C 12/04 (2013.01) [C12C 11/00 (2013.01); C12C 12/006 (2013.01); C12H 3/02 (2019.02)] 14 Claims
 
1. A distilled mixture of restricted-fermentation beer and regular beer in a ratio of 5:95 to 50:50;
the distilled mixture having an ethanol content of 0-1.0 vol. %, and having:
a) a total sugar content, defined as the total of glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, and maltotriose, of at least 0.2 g/100 ml; and
b) a total of Strecker aldehydes, defined as the total of 2-methylpropanal, 2-methylbutanal, 3-methylbutanal, 3-methylthiopropionaldehyde, and phenylacetaldehyde, of less than 50 μg/l; and/or having
a) less than 18 μg/1 2-methylpropanal;
b) less than 3.8 μg/1 2-methylbutanal;
c) less than 14 μg/1 3-methylbutanal;
d) less than 10 μg/1 3-methylthiopropionaldehyde;
e) less than 20 μg/l phenylacetaldehyde, wherein the weight ratio of the total weight of 2-methylpropanal, 2-methylbutanal, 3-methylbutanal, 3-methylthiopropionaldehyde, and phenylacetaldehyde, relative to maltose, is less than 15 μg/g maltose.