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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2013
Suntory Holdings Limited, Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Hiroo Matsui, Osaka, JP;
Takako Inui, Osaka, JP;
Mariko Ishimaru, Osaka, JP;
Daisaku Yonezawa, Osaka, JP;
SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A method for producing a beer-taste beverage characterized in that the method includes adding a hop selected based on hop plant age; and a method for adjusting aroma and taste of a beer-taste beverage, characterized by the use of a hop selected based on hop plant age. According to the present invention, characteristics of aroma and taste attributable from different hops can be made into different ones by using hops of different plant age. In addition, crops of different hop plant age having their own characteristics are properly blended, whereby a beer-taste beverage having preferred characteristics and intensities of aromas, and taste can be provided.