Improvements in the Manufacture or Treatment of Beers, Spirits, Vinegar, Aërated Waters, and other Liquids or Beverages
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1895-Accepted, 20th July, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture or Treatment of Beers, Spirits,
Vinegar, Aërated Waters, and other Liquids or Beverages.
I, THEODORE DAVID LICHTENSTEIN of the Victoria and Royal Albert Docks
Chemical Works, Silvertown in the County of London, Chemist do hereby
declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention has for its object to improve the manufacture, or preparation of
beers, spirits, vinegar, aërated waters and other liquids or beverages and consists in
adding to them, at any convenient stage of their manufacture, or preparation a
caramelized material prepared as described in the Specification of my Application
No. 11154 for Letters Patent of even date herewith from sugar glucose molasses
or other saccharine matter or dextrine, by boiling such saccharine matter and
injecting thereinto steam, or hot or cold air or a mixture of air and steam, until
such matter is brought to a condition approaching the carbonizing point but not so
as to produce charcoal the result on cooling being a liquid or a solid mass
dependant upon the amount of water present. If a solid mass be produced it
should be ground to a fine powder which may if desired be dissolved in water for use.
Any matters such as alkalies, alkaline salts, or alkaline earths which will facilitate
the reaction may be added either before, or during, the passage of the steam or air,
or both steam and air into the said matter. Oxygen gas may be used in place of
air. The material thus prepared as described in the aforesaid Specification and
either in a solid or liquid condition, may be added to the usual or other materials
employed in making or preparing the beer, or other liquid or beverage; or it may
be added at any subsequent stage as may be deemed advisable. The amount of the
material to be used depends upon the nature of the liquid to which it is to be added
but generally, and especially in the case of ale for example half a pound of the
material to each barrel of liquid is a suitable proportion. It may be added to the
liquid in the copper during the operation of boiling and two ounces more may be
added to each barrel when the production of the liquor has been completed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, I declare that I do not claim under this application, the manufacture or
production, of the material prepared as described for use in the treatment of the
beer, or other liquid or beverage, as that forms the subject matter of my application
for Letters Patent of even date herewith and is fully set forth in the Specification
thereof, but what I claim is.―
1. In the manufacture, or treatment, of beers, spirits vinegar, aërated waters and
other liquids or beverages the addition thereto either during, or after, the production
thereof, or both during, and after, such production; of a material such as can be
produced as herein before described.
2. As a product of manufacture beer, spirits, vinegar, aërated waters or other
liquids or beverages treated as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 6th day of June 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.