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Title:
PROCESS FOR PRODUCING VINEGAR
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2008/012912
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
It is intended to provide a process whereby various types of vinegars can be efficiently produced within a short period of time. Namely, a process for producing a vinegar via fermentation with the use of fermentation tanks for submerged culture, characterized by comprising: the step wherein a first fermentation tank for fermenting an acetic acid fermentation liquor providing a fermenting bacterium (hereinafter called “the vinegar starter fermentation liquor”) and one or more second fermentation tanks that are connected to the first fermentation tank in such a manner as to allow the transfer of the liquor in the first fermentation tank thereinto are employed as fermentation tanks and the vinegar starter fermentation liquor is fermented in the first fermentation tank; the step of transferring the vinegar starter fermentation liquor into the second fermentation tank(s) when the acid-producing speed (in terms of acetic acid) of the vinegar starter fermentation liquor in the first fermentation tank attains 0.5 g/L/hr or more; the step of initiating aeration in the second fermentation tank(s) within 10 minutes after the initiation of the liquid transfer; and the step of adding a starting material for fermentation appropriate for the type of the vinegar to be produced in the second fermentation tank to the vinegar starter fermentation liquor and conducting acetic acid fermentation.

Inventors:
ASADA KAZUNORI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2006/314967
Publication Date:
January 31, 2008
Filing Date:
July 28, 2006
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Assignee:
MIZKAN GROUP CORP (JP)
MIZKAN SANMI CO LTD (JP)
ASADA KAZUNORI (JP)
International Classes:
C12J1/04
Foreign References:
JPS5388398A1978-08-03
JPS49102898A1974-09-28
JPS4722799B1
JPS5344696A1978-04-21
JPS4426916B1
JPS5279092A1977-07-02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
YANO, Hiroya et al. (3-12 Nihombashi 3-chom, Chuo-ku Tokyo 27, JP)
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