US Patent Issued to ASAHI GROUP HOLDINGS on Sept. 8 for "Beer-flavored low-alcohol beverage" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,353, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ASAHI GROUP HOLDINGS LTD. (Tokyo).

"Beer-flavored low-alcohol beverage" was invented by Jun Kubota (Moriya, Japan), Mari Baba (Moriya, Japan) and Wataru Nakayama (Moriya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the invention is to provide a method for suppressing sourness and astringency of a low-alcohol beer-taste beverage, and enhancing an alcohol feeling and a complex taste derived from brewing. The means for solving the problems is a low-alcohol beer-taste beverage containing an aroma composition containing: 0.49 ppm or more of ethyl acetate, 0.83 ppm or more of isobutanol, 0.065 ...