Abstract: This method for producing a beer-tasting beverage is provided with: a step in which a starting-material juice is boiled; a step in which the juice, having been boiled, is cooled; a step in which a hop suspension, i.e. a mixture of hops and an aqueous solvent, is boiled, and a hop transpiration component is recovered; a step in which the hop suspension, having been boiled, is added to the juice during or after the boiling step; and a step in which the recovered hop transpiration component is added to the cooled juice.

Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a beer-like drink having enhanced beer-like taste thickness, body feeling and complex taste. The means for solving the problem is a beer-like drink obtained by including a fatty acid having 8 to 14 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A digital camera 28 that is capable of color photography and that has an automatic exposure-adjustment function and an automatic focusing function is mounted in such a way that it can be swiveled by means of a tilt device 29 to a prescribed position in relation to a photographed object 30. The digital camera is swiveled by the tilt device such that the center of the screen moves along a predetermined prescribed route 31 a on subject surface 31. Every time the digital camera's field of view reaches a prescribed location on the route, a portion of the subject surface and a portion of a member 35 that is set on the subject surface are photographed by the digital camera as a photographed range. It is desirable to adjust the focal distance of the digital camera such that the image resolution of each photographed range is nearly constant. The photographed member is a liquid gasket that is applied in bead form along the route and that is detected as defective if its width exceeds a prescribed range.