Nestle Patents Coffee Beer

Dotnaught writes "New Scientist reports that Nestec, a Nestle subsidiary, has applied for a patent on a fermented coffee beverage. In other words, coffee beer -- it foams like beer and packs the caffeine of coffee, with "fruity and/or floral notes due to the fermentation of the coffee aroma."

Comments

Re:Why do people drink this crap?

[teslafreak]

Yeah, pretty much the only thing there (as far as I have heard, but, haven't really looked into it) is the grape seed extract. Which is very good for you, but can be bought in pill form, thus elimating the unhealthy aspects of drinking alcohol.

I haven't heard of any health benefits from caffeiene, although I haven't noticed it causing anxiety though, even in mass amounts. Although for me it slows the time it takes to recall things.

Interesting concept, but a coffee beer? Sounds vile.

Nestle owns all European chocolate

[chocolatetrumpet]

Nestle basically bought all of the chocolate manufacturing in Europe.

Take a look at your kitkat some time - licensed from Nestle.

I was at a restaurant at 10,000ft in the alps. Nestle hot chocolate, of course.

All of Nestle's chocolate products are made with powdered milk, except for Callier - the only Nestle chocolate made with fresh milk. Have fun getting it in the states.

Probably the only chocolatier that Nestle doesn't own is Caotina - damn hard to get that stuff in the states too.

My point is, Nestle has long been your chocolate overlord - the Microsoft or Google of chocolate, especially European chocolate.

Re:Nestle owns all European chocolate

[scherbi]

All this chocolate you speak of is crap. Real, Good, Chocolate is readily available to anybody reading this. You can get El Ray, Scharffen Berger, Chocovic, and many other fine chocolates online. chocosphere.com, for example, has a great selection of *real* chocolate.

Also, my local health food store has begun to cary a decent selection of interesting chocolate from small regional manufacturers.

Yes, I'm a chocolate snob. Deal with it.

Re:Why do people drink this crap?

[mikkom]

Certain alcoholic drinks, like red wine, contain substances that do offer health benefits. But the alcohol does not.

Both of them have health benefits. A recent study even told that (this is crazy) more alcohol you drink, not just red wine as you point, better it is to your hearth. Some research also suggests that moderate drinking may cut the risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. The only problem is that it's also very harmful to drink large amounts of alcohol so the harmful effects are a lot bigger issue than health benefits.

Also, There has been a lot discussion lately about coffees health benefits, see the following articles for example:
Coffee found to be high in health-giving antioxidants
Coffee is America's No. 1 Source of Antioxidants
Coffee: The New Health Food?

Re:Why do people drink this crap?

[Belseth]

Beg to differ. Let's start programming and you drink spring water while I drink Red Bull and expresso and we'll see who's still functional in 72 hours. I've worked around people that do Cocaine and they get worthless after awhile but the caffine drinkers fair well. Different drugs effect the body in different ways. I do fine large amounts of caffine clear your head and can somewhat overcome a lack of sleep. I can't recommend it and ideally the best is 8 hours of good quality sleep but I find for various reasons it's not always possible. The bigger issue is exercise and trying to eat well. Caffine isn't the dangerous drug it was once made out to be and the body tolerates it fairly well. The biggest issue I can see with fermented coffee beverages is caffine is a dieretic and the body needs water to process the alcohol so you might find hang overs worse unless you drink extra water. If you are fantatical about your body I'd avoid sitting infront of a computer, drop your calorie intack below 1,000 a day and pick a career where you are kept physically active for 8 to 10 hours a day. Also go for a low stress lifestyle. Stress will do a hundred times the damage caffine will ever do and that is a fact. Outside of diet and exercise stress would be in the tope three for americans for contributing to ill health. If you are drinking Caca Cola I'd worry far more about the sugar than the caffine. I think the acid it contains would harm your health more than caffine. In coffee the cream and sugar are worse for you than the caffine. No one is perfect the idea is to do your best.

Re:Why do people drink this crap?

[TheAcousticMotrbiker]

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

I half a 1 and a half hour commute each day.
I do this on a bicyle

I also drink coffee (usually in moedration) and alcohol (in moderation).

Then again, Im currently working in moscow for a week, so I have no biking commute, I drink about a dozen cups of coffee a day, (and Im not going to talk about alcohol, though compared to the locals Im hardly drinking anything).

Ive also spend time doing similar work in muslim countries (no alcohol allowed, and tea, tea, tea all day long, no exercise either).

Ive also spend time in countries where my habits were between these extremes, doing similar work.

I've looked back on the quality of work there and can safely state that there is no correlation between the quality of work, and the type of beverages or the amount of physical exercise.

Re:Not a bad patent...

[DrEldarion]

Err, isn't "recipe" just a word that means "put things together this way"? Isn't that what a huge number of patents are? In this case, you're using coffee and yeast instead of silicon and plastic. Just because you ingest it doesn't make the process any less patentable.