Abstract: The invention relates to a fermentation product with reduced ethanol content from sugar-containing fruit juices or other sugar-containing substrates, which is obtainable by the means that a first partial amount of the substrate having a content in fermentable sugars from 5 to 30% by wt. is treated for fermentation with 0.01 to 5% by weight of yeast (calculated as dry substance) and, if need be, with assimilable nitrogen and/or phosphorus compounds, and treated with 0.1 to 2 volume parts of air or amount of oxygen equivalent to air per volume part and minute, until there has been established in the substrate an ethanol content of 1 to 10% by vol., in particular up to 7.5% by vol.; whereupon a second partial amount of the substrated is dosed in under continued gassing with air or with oxygen.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of a low-glucose digestion product from inulin-containing parts of plants, the parts of plants being comminuted, and the inulin being degraded to fructose or fructose oligomers. The process comprises a suspension of the comminuted parts of plants in an aqueous medium, or a pressed juice or extract obtained therefrom, being heated, without removal of the inulin, at temperatures up to 100.degree. C., until the enzymes intrinsic to the plant have substantially been inactivated, whereupon, after cooling, inulinase is added to the suspension or the pressed juice or the extract.

Abstract: Dried and comminuted hop strobiles are mixed with an inert inorganic adsorbent, such as bentonite, and pressed to form cubes, slabs, pellets etc. which may be stored in containers under vacuum or in an inert gas atmosphere. The addition of the adsorbent improves the storage life of the pressed hops in terms of preserving the bitter substances, and further accelerates the disintegration of the pressed hops during wort boiling.