Appeal No. 2001-0965
Application 08/751,035
specified particle size, and this flour is fed to a
mashing-boiling-filtering sequence. Claim 33 is illustrative:
33. A method for producing a boiled wort adapted for use in
making beer and other fermented malted beverages from water,
malted cereals, and optionally unmalted cereals, said method
comprising:
grinding said malted cereals so as to obtain an unseparated
flour possessing a particle size so that from about 60% to about
70% of said flour passes through a 60 mesh screen;
mashing said unseparated flour in a kettle to obtain a
suspension;
boiling said suspension in the same kettle to form a boiled
wort; and
filtering said boiled wort, said filtering step comprising
the step of pumping said boiled wort through a filter to
eliminate an insoluble phase from said boiled wort.
THE REFERENCES
Blum 3,048,489 Aug. 7, 1962
The Practical Brewer, 64-67, 92-95, 126-127, 142-143 (Harold M.
Broderick ed. (publisher unknown) (1977).
THE REJECTION
Claims 18-24, 27 and 33-39 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over The Practical Brewer in view of
Blum.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejection.
The appellants’ independent claims require that malted
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