PREPARING ALCOHOL POWDERS

• Main Authors: TOSHIRO KURUSU, TERUMASA MIZUTANI, JINICHI SATO, MASAO OTA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 02.06.1983
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COFFEE; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MANUFACTURE, PREPARATION, OR INFUSION THEREOF; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; OTHER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; PREPARATION THEREOF; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SPIRITS; TEA; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR SUBSTITUTES; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; VINEGAR; WINE

Alcohol-containing powders having a high alcohol content with a high alcohol yield are prepared by mixing a hydrolyzed starch comprising at least 50% of oligosaccharides having a glucose polymerization degree of up to 8 and up to 10% of saccharides having a glucose polymerization degree of up to 2 in an alcohol-containing aqueous solution and spray-drying the resulting liquid mixture.