A beer beverage comprising 4-vinyl phenol (4VP) and 4-vinyl guaiacol (4VG) in the 4VG:4VP weight ratio of from 2.5-10, the overall weight proportion of 4VG and 4VP in the beverage being from 0.1 ppm to 0.6 ppm.

The compounds provide desirable beer flavor characteristics to both beers and non-alcoholic beer beverages deficient in these characteristics.

Provided are a probiotic-fermented maca composition, a preparation method therefor, and use thereof. The composition is prepared from maca, fructus lycii and fructus rubi by milling, water extraction, enzymolysis and fermentation by Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus, and can be used for preparing foods, healthcare products or beverages for improving fatigue tolerance and sexual function.

Provided is a dietary fiber characterized in that bitterness and unpleasant aftertaste are restrained. The dietary fiber has terminal sugars and is characterized in that the ratio of aldoses relative to the total of the terminal sugars is 10% or less. Such a dietary fiber may be, for example, indigestible dextrin, polydextrose or the like. The dietary fiber may be used as a food additive (for example, a beverage additive).

A method and system for producing hawthorn fermented beverage where hawthorn fruits are used as the main material to produce a hawthorn fermented beverage with special fermented flavor, rich nutrition, mellow mouth feel and suitable sourness and sweetness, through the processes of fruit sorting, cleaning, juice squeezing, blending, pre-sterilization, alcoholic fermentation, acetic fermentation, lactic acid fermentation, filtration, sterilization and filling. An atomized fermentation technology is adopted for the yeast aerobic proliferation during the alcoholic fermentation phase and for the acetic fermentation phase, so that, as compared with the liquid submerged fermentation methods, the fermentation time of these two stages are shortened by 10-15 hours and 62-100 hours respectively, and the fermentation period is shortened by 3-5 days, which improves the production efficiency of fermentation.

The present invention relates to a yeast strain used in the production of a fermented beverage, wherein the yeast strain is a hybrid obtained by a mass-mating hybridisation process between haploid spores selected from Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain Y927, strain Y115, strain WI011, strain WI017 and strain WI018, or wherein the yeast strain is an inbred strain of said hybrid. The present invention further relates to a yeast slurry, a method for brewing a fermented beverage, and a malt or tea-based beverage obtained on the basis of a fermentation process.

Provided is a beer-taste beverage, comprising 0.40 to 1.5 (v/v) % of ethanol and 5.8 (w/w) % or less of maltose, and having a pH value of 2.6 or more and less than 4.3.

A rapid method of brewing malt beverages having 0.0% alcohol by volume with the use of yeast in aerobic conditions. The yeast is inactivated by boiling after undergoing fermentative (minimal yeast contact time) growth, during either aerobic or anaerobic conditions. Aspects of the beverage such as sweetness, aldehyde content, flavor-positive components, pH, mouthfeel and heat are controlled to emulate popular styles of beer. The beverage may also be fortified with alcohol to create alcoholic products, such as beer, kombucha, hard seltzer, wine or spirits in a rapid time frame.

Disclosed is a novel lactic acid bacterium belonging to Lactobacillus plantarum, which has an excellent fermentative ability affording high achievable cell counts even if various vegetable or fruit juices are used as fermentative substrates. The lactic acid bacterium belonging to Lactobacillus plantarum is characterized by the achievable viable cell counts being 10.sup.8 CFU/ml or more in both cases when 100% juice of grape or of orange is used as fermentative substrate.

Packaging a fermented beverage in an aluminum-bearing or containing vessel includes controlling a concentration of sulfur dioxide within the fermented beverage. The concentration of the sulfur dioxide is decreased by subjecting the fermented beverage to a chemical process in batch or in-line and prior to filling the vessel or after filling the vessel.

A process for preparing a liquid oat base or drink of improved soluble oat protein content from an oats material, in particular an oats material that has not been heat treated in a humid state, comprises solubilizing oat protein in an aqueous solvent by means of protein-deamidase. Also disclosed is a corresponding liquid oat base and uses thereof.