| 摘要 |
<p>A distilled alcoholic beverage comprises oak bark extract. The distilled alcoholic beverage comprises from 0.001% to 0.005% of the oak bark extract. Preferably the beverage comprises alcohol, water and the oak bark extract in which the water has a pH of between 7 and 8. A process for the production of alcoholic beverages involving distillation, wherein ethanol produced by the fermentation of vegetable material is recovered by distillation after which oak bark is admixed with the ethanol for a period of time and the ethanol containing oak bark extract is recovered by distillation and subsequently diluted with water to provide the alcoholic beverage is outlined. Preferably the oak bark has a moisture content of from 6 to 12wt% and is preferably granulated and soaked in ethanol for between 15 to 20 hours. Preferably the beverage is gin.</p> |
