Patent ID: 7972639

Claim:
A method of preparing a beverage, comprising: mixing a fluid concentrate beverage component with a first liquid to provide a base liquid; dispensing the base liquid from a dispensing device into a container; dosing and dispensing a flowable additive from the dispensing device into the container to mix the flowable additive with the base liquid during the dispensing of the base liquid to provide a beverage; controlling the dispensing of the base liquid and additive to vary a relative concentration of the additive in the base liquid in the container during the dispensing, wherein the dispensing of the additive begins after the dispensing of the base liquid starts; stopping the dispensing of the flowable additive; and stopping the dispensing of the base liquid substantially no earlier than when the dispensing of the flowable additive is stopped, wherein the additive is dispensed in a plurality of pulses of predetermined durations, the base liquid being dispensed at least before and at the beginning of the pulses, and wherein the dispensing of the beverage is controlled by the following sequence: starting the dispense of the beverage base at a starting time T=0, starting pulsing the additive at a time delay A in seconds from a starting time T=0 corresponding to formula: A=v /( V/Z ) where volume “v” is a minimum volume of beverage base needed before pulsing the additive, V is an actual beverage volume and Z is a total dispensing time for the beverage in seconds, pulsing the additive at every time interval corresponding to a formula: time interval=( Z− 2 .A )/ n, where n is total number of pulses necessary for delivering X mL of additive in the beverage obtained by a formula: n=X/q where q is a quantity of additive delivered by the additive dosing device per pulse, and ending dispensing of the beverage base at a time delay of T=Z.