Patent ID: 7870749

Claim:
A method of regulating a refrigerant temperature for a beverage machine, the beverage machine having a refrigeration system for producing a frozen beverage therein, the method comprising: providing a beverage, wherein the beverage has a brix value less than about 10; operating at least one compressor at a speed to flow a refrigerant through a refrigeration system of the beverage machine; cooling the refrigerant with at least one condenser; cooling the beverage with at least one evaporator; and partially freezing the beverage by controllably varying at least one of (1) a flowrate of the refrigerant through the at least one evaporator; (2) the flowrate of the refrigerant through the at least one condenser; and (3) the flowrate of the refrigerant through the at least one compressor so as to regulate a temperature of the refrigerant and compensate for the brix value of the beverage.