Patent ID: 7824726
Filing Date: 2010-11-02
Classification: A23C,A23F,A23G,A23L

Abstract:
1. Method of making a coffee or cocoa beverage consisting of the steps of: (a) roasting coffee or cocoa beans to form roasted coffee or cocoa beans; (b) crushing the roasted coffee or cocoa beans; (c) cooling said roasted and crushed coffee or cocoa beans to form cooled crushed coffee or cocoa with sterilized cold moving air; (d) extraction of said cooled crushed coffee or forming a suspension of said cooled crushed cocoa to form a beverage; (e) filling the beverage in a container; and (f) sealing said container, said method characterized in that the roasted coffee or cocoa beans are conveyed to the crushing process aseptically while maintaining a sterile atmosphere and all steps after roasting of the coffee or cocoa beans to filling of the beverage in the container and sealing of the container are conducted in a sterile atmosphere without interruption of the sterile atmosphere and that extraction of the roast coffee or preparation of the suspension of the roast cocoa is conducted with sterile water and, at least in a part of said steps, a sterile inert gas atmosphere is used as the sterile atmosphere and that all steps after the roasting of the coffee or cocoa beans are conducted without retort treatment under a temperature from +120° C. to 125° C.