Patent ID: 8584897

Claim:
A system for dispensing a cooled beverage, the system comprising: a beverage line connectable to a beverage supply at a remote location at least a plurality of meters from a dispensing site, for transporting beverage from the beverage supply through a conduit to a beverage dispense valve at a dispensation site; and a cooling line for transporting a cooling medium through the conduit so as to allow heat exchange between the cooling medium in the cooling line and the beverage in the beverage line; wherein the cooling line is connectable to the beverage supply, or to a second beverage supply to extend from a remote location at least a plurality of meters from a dispensing site, such that the cooling medium is a beverage cooling medium; a slush ice generator for cooling the beverage cooling medium, proximate the remote location, to below its freezing point to form ice particles of frozen beverage at ambient atmospheric pressure; a cooling return line extending from the dispensing site to the means for cooling; and wherein the system further comprises a cooling medium dispense valve, in communication with the cooling line at the dispensation site, for dispensing the beverage cooling medium.