Patent ID: 7762180

Claim:
An apparatus for preparing a beverage fit for consumption with a fine-bubble froth layer, the apparatus comprising: a beverage unit, which dispenses under pressure a beverage to be processed to a beverage processing path, the beverage processing path successively including a nozzle and a buffer reservoir, the nozzle being positioned relative to the buffer reservoir such that, in use, it generates a jet of the beverage, which squirts into the buffer reservoir to obtain the beverage with the fine-bubble froth layer, and the buffer reservoir being provided with an outlet path from the buffer reservoir for discharging the beverage with the fine-bubble froth layer from the buffer reservoir, wherein the beverage processing path, upstream of the nozzle, further includes an additive holder, which, in use, can be filled with a beverage additive, wherein the beverage leaving the beverage unit, in use, flows into the additive holder to dissolve the beverage additive in the beverage, wherein the additive holder is provided with an outlet path from the additive holder, via which the beverage is further transported from the additive holder to the nozzle to generate the jet of the beverage.