BEVERAGE PRODUCTION METHOD AND BEVERAGE PRODUCTION APPARATUS

• Main Authors: IRIE HIDEKAZU, OIE KENTARO, TOMIKAWA TOSHIO, ISHIKAWA YOSHITERU, IZUMI MASAHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.08.2010
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES; COFFEE; COFFEE MILLS; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; FURNITURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; MANUFACTURE, PREPARATION, OR INFUSION THEREOF; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL; TEA; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR SUBSTITUTES; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remove bubbles formed in a beverage without deteriorating taste and flavor of the beverage. SOLUTION: There are provided a beverage production apparatus (20) furnished with a drink deaeration means (3) and a bubble breaking means (5), and a beverage production method based on the apparatus. The apparatus may further contain a beverage sterilization means (10). The deaeration means may contain at least one of a deaerator, an inert gas stripping part and a static mixer, and the bubble breaking means may be a pump capable of breaking the membrane of the bubble. The dissolved oxygen content of the drink is preferably ≤0.5 ppm after breaking the bubble. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT