Patent · US Expired

Process for the stabilization of hop products

US5358726A · kind A · utility

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Assignees

SKW Trostberg Aktiengesellschaft · DE
Fromm, Mayer-Bass GmbH · DE

Inventors

Paul Klusters · Brackenheim, DE
Jan Cully · Garching bei München, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 11, 1993
Grant date	Oct 25, 1994
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 11, 2013

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF26B21/14
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

In order to stabilize hop products by drying at a circulating air temperature of 60.degree. to 80.degree. C. to a residual moisture content of the dried hop products of between 12 and 14% by weight, the hop product is subjected after drying to a short period of thermal irradiation or to a temperature treatment at 60.degree. to 90.degree. C. under inert gas conditions.

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