US Patent Issued to HEINEKEN SUPPLY CHAIN on Aug. 5 for "Non-alcoholic fermented beer having improved flavour" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,507, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HEINEKEN SUPPLY CHAIN B.V. (Zoeterwoude, Netherlands).

"Non-alcoholic fermented beer having improved flavour" was invented by Deborah Casandra Gernat (Delft, Netherlands), Eric Richard Brouwer (Zoeterwoude, Netherlands) and Marcel Ottens (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a process of producing a non-alcoholic beer comprising the steps of: fermenting the wort with live yeast to produce a fermented wort; subjecting the fermented wort to one or more further process steps to produce a non-alcoholic beer; and introducing the non-alcoholic beer in a sealed contai...