| 摘要 |
This invention relates to a method for pasteurisation and fermentation in the production of an alcoholic beverage. The method involves taking a fermentable soluble extract from a processed fermentable mash, mixing it in a mixing zone with a fermented fermentable extract containing an alcohol content of at least 4% alcohol by volume together with other products formed during fermentation, processing this mixture by heating the mixture to a temperature no greater than 71 .degree.C (160.degree.F), holding the mixture at that temperature for 10 to 20 minutes and then cooling the mixture to a fermentation temperature, before fermenting the mixture according to known fermentation processes. In order to produce a continuous flow process and better control the specific gravity of the unfermented fermentable extract, the liquid extract from the fermentable mash may be converted to a soluble powder product which can then be provided in a continuous flow of powder product for dissolving with a continuous flow of water to produce a continuous flow of fermentable soluable extract for mixing with a continuous flow of fermented fermentable extract taken from an outlet of a continuous fermenting plant, the mixture being processed as above before entering the continuous fermenting plant for fermentation to produce an alcoholic beverage.
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